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Seattle Times – The vast backlog of veterans’ disability claims is being reduced and should be eliminated by 2015, said U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki during a Thursday [...]

Kero-TV23 – The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is urging Veterans with combat-related disabilities to seek the help of accredited claims preparers, rather than file benefits claims [...]

Many of you may have heard of the famous Windsor case in the news recently. This is the one where the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) came under attack. Basically, a same sex-couple was married in [...]

Loveland Reporter-Herald – Responding to increasing pressure from Congress, Veterans, Advocates, and the press to reduce the time it takes for disabled veterans to have their claims [...]

Virginia Gazette – U.S. Senator Mark R. Warner (D-VA) joined U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki Wednesday in announcing that William and Mary Law School’s Lewis B. [...]

Government Executive – Putting a five-year moratorium on all bonuses for senior executives at the Veterans Affairs Department would save the federal government $18 million, according to the [...]

Washington Post – A petition signed by 26,000 veterans and delivered to the White House Tuesday calls for President Obama to end the disability claims backlog and fire Secretary of Veterans [...]

The News Tribune – After a two-year battle with the Air Force and Department of Veterans Affairs, a group of ailing Air Force Reserve aviators has won a bittersweet victory: VA [...]

Stars and Stripes –  A bipartisan group of lawmakers is urging the Centers for Disease Control to complete a new, comprehensive report on the health effects of toxic tap water at the Camp [...]

Washington Post – Soldiers diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder reportedly are being sent back to Afghanistan as the Army looks to rely on its most experienced soldiers during the [...]