New Law Expands VA Program for Veterans to Buy Vehicles Adapted for Their Disabilities Eligible veterans will have access to a grant from the VA every 10 years, rather than once in their lifetimes.
VA to Begin Processing Burn Pit and Related Claims Under Landmark PACT Act on Jan. 1 The department has received more than 213,000 claims for benefits under landmark military environmental exposure legislation...
5 Myths About the PACT Act and VA Benefits The VA is beginning to provide additional health care and benefits for generations of toxic exposed veterans and their...
VA to Get 22% Budget Boost for Medical Care In Government Spending Deal Lawmakers are set to approve $118.7 billion for veterans medical care for 2023, which is $21.7 billion more than was approved...
VA Abortion Policy Faces Congressional, Legal Challenges Challenges are mounting to the VA's recently enacted abortion policy, intended to provide access to abortion services at VA...
VA Seeing a Resurgence of COVID-19 Among Patients, Urges Veterans to Get Boosted Cases of COVID-19 at VA medical facilities have doubled since Nov. 1; 267 veterans have died in the same time frame.
VA Starts Early Review of Claims for Veterans With Terminal Illnesses Under the PACT Act The Department of Veterans Affairs announced it has started considering claims from veterans with fatal illnesses and will...
VA Hosting 'Week of Action' to Spread Word About PACT Act Benefits More than 90 events are scheduled across the country to help veterans enroll in health care, file claims and screen for...
How We Breathe Is the Key to an Effective New Treatment for Anxiety and PTSD The Department of Veterans Affairs estimates that up to 20% of those who served in Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from some kind...
15 Republican Attorneys General Warn of Legal Challenge to VA Abortion Policy The attorneys general argued that the VA's abortion policy implemented earlier this years is "deeply flawed" and that a...
Army Dramatically Expands Combat Patch Eligibility The policy shift, issued last week, covers soldiers who served in Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon...
Plans for Mass VA Firings Scuttled, But Department Still Expects 30,000 Employees to Leave on Their Own The announcement walked back previous plans, first revealed in a leaked memo in March, to fire as many as 83,000 employees as...
Colonel Retaliated Against Major for Talking to Congress About Red Hill Contamination, Report Says The report said that investigators substantiated an allegation that an Air Force colonel had retaliated against Army Maj...
Air Force Academy Cutting 140 Positions; Majors Affected? As the Air Force works to cut 5,000 positions before October, the Air Force Academy expects to eliminate 140 jobs.
Mystery on Pacific Seafloor Proves to Be Part of Daring WWII Saga, US Navy Says A mysterious object spotted on the South Pacific seafloor has been identified as the bow of a torpedoed World War II ship...