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The Patriot-News – It can be very tempting if someone claiming to be an advisor tells the veteran he or she can access the benefits they have earned faster — if they just pay a fee. [...]

Army Times – VA’s effort to spend six months concentrating on its oldest benefits claims is having some success, but lawmakers are concerned that the improvements might be temporary. [...]

washingtonpost.com – The chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs expressed skepticism in a television interview about proposals to create a presidential commission to examine [...]

Contra Costa Times – There is still plenty of paper to be found inside the Oakland VA regional office — veterans’ disability claims, doctors’ files, folders, [...]

Huffington Post – Congressman Tim Walz is on a mission. More than seven years after hanging up his National Guard uniform, Walz—the highest-ranking enlisted soldier on Capitol [...]

Stars and Stripes – You might find it shocking to hear that the world’s greatest fighting force estimates that an average of 71 sexual assaults occurred within its ranks on any given day [...]

American Forces Press Service – The Pentagon is committed to doing everything it can to work with the Department of Veterans Affairs to reduce the claims backlog, Defense Secretary Chuck [...]

On May 22, 2013, the Honorable Allison A. Hickey, Under Secretary for Benefits, testified before Congress on VA’s initiative to process rating claims pending over two years.  In her [...]

Introduced in the Senate on May 9, 2013, new legislation threatens to shorten the filing period for a Notice of Disagreement (NOD) from one year to six months. The drastic change appears in [...]

Agency Hopes to Avoid Sanctions through Plan Drafted In Consultation with NOVA Washington, D.C .– On May 20, 2013, VA responded to an order from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit [...]