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Forbes – A government shutdown could force as many as 62,000 employees for the Department of Veterans Affairs to take temporary furloughs, according to USA Today. Among those furloughed [...]

Stars and Stripes – The story of two best friends heading out on a cross-country trip is not exactly something new. What if those two friends were former Marines? That’s a little different. [...]

BusinessofGovernment.org The Department of Veterans Affairs has been in the cross-hairs of critics for delays in approving benefits for deserving veterans. Recent reports suggest that VA has [...]

Morning Sentinel – More than 500,000 health claims at the VA have been allowed to lag for more than 125 days. Highly complex diagnoses like PTSD and traumatic brain injury are difficlut to [...]

Army TImes – More than three out of four injured post-9/11 veterans have post-traumatic stress disorder and roughly the same number suffer from major anxiety, according to a survey released [...]

Weatherford Democrat – On Sept. 6 the Department of Veterans Affairs adopted as a final rule its proposal to amend its adjudication regulations by clarifying and expanding the terminology [...]

FoxNews.com – Of late, the VA has reportedly hired more claims processors, revamped its training regimen and made it a standing requirement employees work 20 hours of overtime each month to [...]

The Baltimore Sun – A senior official of the American Legion, working with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to reduce its disability claims backlog, told Congress her organization [...]

The Washington Post – The departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs provide “limited and inadequate” treatment for post traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury, according to [...]

Stars and Stripes – The VA filed proposed rules Wednesday that would be used to implement part of the Honoring America’s Veterans and Caring for Camp Lejeune Families Act, which became law [...]