VA Union Issues, Not Claims Backlog, Dominate Debate at Hearing The debate at a House hearing last week concerned union business on official time at the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Shutdown Adding to Vet Appeals Backlog A VA official said the claims backlog was now down 30 percent, but that progress could be lost because of the shutdown.
VA Wants Watchdog Group’s Whistleblower Reports The VA’s Inspector General wants a watchdog group to turn over reports it has from sources blowing the whistle on alleged...
IG Says VA Leaders Enabled Abuses of Health System The VA's inspector general says the VA has a history of ignoring or circumventing policies.
VA 'Presumption' Regulation Could Help Up to 15K Lejeune Vets The Department of Veterans Affairs expects up to 15,000 seriously ill veterans who served at Camp Lejeune, N.C., before 1988.
VA to Begin Processing Camp Lejeune Toxic Water Claims The compensation process was cleared when the White House exempted it from a presidential order blocking new federal...
Vet Groups Scramble to Help Vets in VA Furlough Disabled American Veterans service officers began setting up Tuesday in local DAV posts, Department of Veterans Affairs'...
VA Chief Visits Fayetteville Clinic after Audit The Acting VA secretary will be visiting the VA Medical Center in Fayetteville, North Carolina, to talk about patient...
VA Announces Major Restructuring Ahead of Veterans Day The VA is getting a customer service chief that will drive the agency to be more responsive to veterans' expectations.
McDonald Lays Out 'Breakthrough Priorities' for VA in 2016 The ambitious commitments were two of a dozen "breakthrough priorities" that McDonald detailed for the Senate Veterans...
Navy Demotion Reversed for GOP Congressman Who Government Watchdog Found Abused Subordinates Jackson was quietly demoted to captain in 2022, three years after his retirement from the Navy, following an inspector...
Camp Pendleton Officer, Wife Sue Military Housing Company over Crash That Killed 8-Year-Old Son A Marine Corps family whose 8-year-old son died last year after he was struck by a vehicle while riding his bicycle on Camp...
Coast Guard to Launch Service-Wide Physical Fitness Test for All Members Next Year Coast Guard men and women must take a preliminary assessment by the end of this year and a mandatory PFT starting in 2026.
How the Men on a Navy Submarine Survived After Sinking 240 Feet in the Atlantic Trapped 240 feet beneath the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, Lt. Oliver Naquin could not ensure the crew of the USS Squalus...
Rubio Says US Is Designating 2 More Gangs as Foreign Terrorist Groups The two new designees, Los Lobos and Los Choneros, are Ecuadorian gangs blamed for much of the violence that began since the...
