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Sun Sentinel – Veterans advocates say local VA offices have been bogged down by a barrage of incomplete or meritless applications. The result is that thousands of claims are delayed, often [...]

NBC News – Amid scrutiny from Capitol Hill and the White House, a top VA official reaffirmed last week the agency will meet its goal to process all disability-benefit claims within 125 days [...]

ArmyTimes – A 10-point plan to improve veterans claims processing was approved Tuesday by a Senate subcommittee.  Johnson’s 10-point claims processing plan on the veterans’ funding bill [...]

Stars and Stripes – On June 30, Shinseki will become the longest serving secretary in VA history and the longest serving leader of federal veterans programs since the end of the Vietnam [...]

Federal News Radio – VA’s congressional overseers say it appears the increased attention to new claims is forcing another critical part of the department’s workload, the process [...]

The Washington Post – The number of pending cases has decreased by 74,000 over the past 45 days, Thomas Murphy, director of compensation service for the Veterans Benefits Administration, [...]

USA Today – Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki has altered the charter of an independent board to research Gulf War Illness, cut its budget and limited the board’s [...]

Stars and Stripes – VA compensation for sleep apnea now exceeds $1.2 billion annually under the most conservative of calculations.  Michael T. Webster, a former naval aviator and family law [...]

Army Times – The Veterans Affairs Department is asking the public for input on its planned registry of service members potentially exposed to pollution from open-air burn pits and other [...]

Washington Post – At least eight foreign-sponsored organizations, mostly connected to the Chinese military, have into computer networks at the Veterans Affairs Department in recent [...]