After Recent Years of Reform, Vets Fear Trump Cuts to VA Will Undo Lifeline Health Care, Research Amid a downsizing campaign that’s poised to overhaul, streamline and — in some cases — eradicate bedrock federal agencies...
Class-Action Suit over Limits on Combat-Related Disability Pay Goes Before Supreme Court The Supreme Court will hear arguments in Soto v. United States, a case that challenges a six-year limit on back pay for...
VA Watchdog: Misdated PACT Act Disability Decisions Costing Government, Veterans Millions The Department of Veterans Affairs Office of the Inspector General found that the VA likely overpaid some veterans while...
VA Chipping Away at Claims Backlog, Hopes to Process 2.5 Million Filings This Year The department has adopted several initiatives to speed processing and allow adjudicators to seek more work if they have...
Widow of Air Force Missileer Who Died of Cancer Secures VA Benefits After Yearslong Fight The widow of an Air Force missileer who died of non-Hodgkin lymphoma has finally secured Department of Veterans Affairs...
Several Types of Cancer Now Eligible for Expedited Veterans Affairs Claims The department has added several blood and urinary tract cancers to the list of diseases considered to be related to service...
Marine from Ship That Dumped Fuel into Its Water Has Disability Claim Approved Following Military.com Investigation The change of heart by the VA could pave the way for other veterans to receive disability pay for an event that the Navy...
K2 Veterans with Certain Types of Cancer May Soon Qualify for Expedited VA Disability Claims The Department of Veterans Affairs has started the process to add bladder, urethral cancer and other genitourinary cancers to...
Supreme Court Weighs Arguments in Lawsuit over Veterans Getting 'Benefit of Doubt' in Claims Decisions The Supreme Court must decide what Congress meant when it clarified a law that required the Court of Veterans Appeals to...
Hundreds of Veterans Kicked Out of Military for Being Gay Will Have Discharges Upgraded The upgraded discharges will unlock VA benefits for hundreds of veterans for the first time.
Fired Space Force Officer Approved to Be Air Force's No. 2 Civilian Leader In a 52-46 party-line vote, the Senate approved former Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier to become the under secretary of the Air...
‘I Came Home Different': What They Don't Tell You About Life After Service "No one tells you that you might survive everything and still wake up years later wondering what the hell you're doing here."
Schumer Asks US Army to Award New York Hero with Medal of Honor Army Staff Sgt. Michael Ollis died in 2013 during a Taliban raid on Forward Operating Base Ghazni in Afghanistan.
Navy Torpedo Boat Abandoned in South Carolina Waters. Now the Owner Has Been Arrested These days, the only threat posed by a 120-foot-long Navy torpedo vessel is to the marsh outside of Charleston, S.C., where...
Marine Veteran Dies After Shooter Lying in Wait Ambushed Police Who Parked to Eat Lunch An Ohio police department says one of its officers is dead after a shooter lying in wait ambushed him and another officer as...
