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Fort Mill Times (The American Legion) –  The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has reduced its benefits claims backlog by 144,000 in the past five months. While that’s commendable to the [...]

The Florida Times-Union – A newly released Government Accountability Office study says the Department of Veterans Affairs awarded bonuses to most of the doctors and dentists serving at its [...]

Star Tribune – The Supreme Court ruled in June that a law, the federal Defense of Marriage Act, denying federal tax, health and pension benefits to married, same-sex couples was [...]

Stars and Stripes – The first time the Vietnam veteran filed his disability claim, he got nothing. The second time, he got nearly $500,000. “It was certainly a surprise,” said the veteran, [...]

The Washington Post – More than two-thirds of claims processors at the Department of Veterans Affairs received performance bonuses in 2011, despite the fact that the claims backlog [...]

NBCNews.com – The Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense spent at least $1.3 billion during the last four years trying unsuccessfully to develop a single electronic [...]

The Washington Post –   The struggles faced by many veterans and service members in coping with post-traumatic stress took center stage at the White House on Monday as President Obama [...]

Government Executive – Doctors working for the Veterans Affairs department received performance-based bonuses despite providing poor treatment, according to a new report, due to a lack of [...]

The Huffington Post – I’m reserving my applause for the new plan to end the VA disability claims backlog by 2015. First, we need to address a pervasive adversarial culture toward the [...]

The News & Observer – The VA hopes that eBenefits will transform the agency by helping it go paperless and by reducing the number of times each veteran has to come to a VA office for [...]