Stars and Stripes – Epilepsy is a common side effect veterans experience after suffering head trauma at war. It’s debilitating for parents who worry about passing out in front of their [...]
WITF-TV – Hickey, a retired Marine Corps Major and Fulton County, Pennsylvania native, says AMVETS is urging Congress to pass the “Putting Veterans Funding First Act,” which would fund the [...]
Supreme Court hears oral argument in Long Term Disability case The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in the case of Heimeshoff v. Hartford Life Ins. The issue is when a limitations period [...]
Military.com – Support for defense has eroded in Congress, say former Army leaders on hand this week for the Association of the United States Army conference in Washington, D.C. “I [...]
MarketWatch – Seven out of 10 veterans either didn’t know or underestimated the reduction in monthly Social Security benefits that comes with claiming them at 62, instead of 66. And nine [...]
Chicago Sun-Times – World War II veteran Joseph Groner’s frustrating dance with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is finally finished, and the best part is Groner is still standing. [...]
Las Vegas Review-Journal – The continuing funding resolution that ended the government shutdown last week gave the Department of Veterans Affairs a bigger boost to resolve the VA’s backlog [...]
NewsMax – More than 400,000 claims from the nation’s warriors have been left untouched for more than four months in the offices of the Department of Veterans Affairs, it has been [...]
The Oregonian – Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Ore., joined with 19 other members of the House of Representatives to implore Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki to reverse the [...]
Stars and Stripes – The veterans claims backlog continued to drop this month despite the two-week government shutdown and dire claims from Veterans Affairs leaders that momentum on the [...]