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(The Washington Post) – The new chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee warned Wednesday that sequestration could adversely affect programs for veterans, despite an exemption in the [...]

(Nextgov) – The Veterans Affairs Department has undercounted the number of Afghanistan and Iraq war veterans seeking care over the past decade for post-traumatic stress disorder by 10,299 [...]

(Highland News) – On Dec. 20, the VA announced that, effective immediately, it is implementing a new process to confirm beneficiaries’ use of pension benefits. The VA will monitor [...]

(Go San Angelo) – The Department of Veterans Affairs will conduct a mortality study to track causes of death for veterans, creating a database that could be used to evaluate services [...]

(US. News) – Duckworth, who served as the assistant secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, will serve on the House Armed Services Committee and will be the first female [...]

(NextGov) – The Veterans Affairs Department’s disability claims backlog edged above the 900,000 mark this week, with 608,365 — 67.6 percent — stuck in the system more than [...]

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), a prominent member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, was sworn into the Senate for a new term of office today after winning reelection last [...]

(SCOTUS Blog)- Issue: Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in holding that 38 U.S.C. § 511, which provides that the Secretary of Veterans Affairs “shall decide all questions of law and fact [...]

(SCOTUS Blog)- Issue: Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (CAVC) has the authority and responsibility to reverse a denial of benefits where the record is complete and there is [...]

(NextGov)- The Veterans Affairs Department has paid the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic $105 million to help develop its next-generation disability claims processing system since [...]