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The Hill – The House approved legislation on Tuesday that would increase rates of benefit compensation for veterans with disabilities caused by their military service. Read More >

VBA – The VA has developed a two-part video series that provides an overview of VA Form 21-534EZ and the benefits it covers. Video – Part 1 Video – Part 2

Congressional Budget Office – H. R. 571 would limit the amount of awards and bonuses paid to employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs and would modify the department’s [...]

The Washington Examiner – A whistleblower has accused the Department of Veterans Affairs of intentionally violating its own policy toward combat veterans to keep thousands of applicants [...]

The Columbus Dispatch – Donald Strauser died at the age of 80 in 2006. But his monthly disability check from the Department of Veterans Affairs lived on for eight more years. By the time [...]

Stars and Stripes – More than 40 years after fighting in Vietnam, about 11 percent of combat veterans still suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, a new study finds, and far more of [...]

Military Times – Troops who worked at burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as those exposed to multiple dust storms during war-zone deployments, have higher rates of common [...]

Stars and Stripes – House lawmakers said Wednesday they felt forced to fill a $3 billion budget hole at the Department of Veterans Affairs that could halt outside health care treatment at [...]

ABC News – The Department of Veterans Affairs faces a serious numbers problem – multiple, in fact. It can’t count how many veterans died while waiting to sign up for health [...]

NPR – To understand the predicament of World War II veterans exposed to mustard gas, take a look at what happened to another set of American veterans who were exposed to a different toxic [...]