Here Is the VA Dependency and Indemnity Compensation Rate for 2025 Survivors will receive a slightly-below-average increase in 2025.
Annual Cost-of-Living Boost for Veterans Benefits Finalized by Congress The increase applies to disability benefits, clothing allowances, and dependency and indemnity compensation for surviving...
Veterans Not Covered by Toxic Hazards Legislation Wait Decades for VA Recognition, Report Finds While legislation that created presumptive conditions for Agent Orange and burn pits has helped millions, veterans exposed to...
Vets with Rare Lung Disease Could Get Benefits More Easily Under Proposed Changes, VA Says The Department of Veterans Affairs is taking steps to remove the specific challenges veterans with constrictive bronchiolitis...
VA Sets Up Website, Call Center to Protect Vets from Fraud as More Companies Profit from Benefits Claims Veterans and family members can find educational materials and references on scams and fraud through VSAFE, the Veterans...
The VA Withheld $84M from Eligible Disabled Veterans. Now Nonprofit Legal Clinics Are Stepping In. A new report revealing more than $84 million in underpayments to qualified veterans is a sign the Department of Veterans...
Audit: Connecticut VA Improperly Paid Overtime, Comp Time The audit, which covered fiscal years 2020 and 2021, specifically faulted Connecticut's Department of Veterans Affairs for...
Housing Agency Scraps Catch-22-Type Rule That Kept Disabled Homeless Vets from Receiving Rent Vouchers Homeless veterans who were wounded, injured or became sick during their time in uniform will no longer have their disability...
A Nearly $3 Billion Shortfall in VA Benefits Is Looming. The Senate Has Proposed a Fix, But Time Is Running Out. Seeking to avoid a disruption in veterans benefits payments later this year, a bipartisan group of senators has introduced a...
The Next Deadline for Backdated PACT Act Payments Is Coming Soon. Here’s What You Need to Know Those vets or family members who hadn’t yet filed a PACT Act claim but instead declared their “intent to file” a claim ahead...
Here Is the 2025 Pay Raise for Disabled Veterans and Military Retirees Military retirees and disabled veterans will receive 2.5% increases to their monthly paychecks for 2025, thanks to the annual...
Army Says Soldiers Should Avoid Poppy Seeds in Updated Regulation over Drug-Testing Concerns While poppy seeds are often an ingredient in baked goods and pastries, they also -- depending on how they are harvested and...
'Like Freeing a Ghost': A Sailor's Strange and Wondrous Journey Back from Pearl Harbor Some service members killed aboard the Oklahoma were identified, but most, like Titterington, were laid in mass graves...
Military Board Substantiates Misconduct But Declines to Fire Marine Who Adopted Afghan Orphan A U.S. Marine whose adoption of an Afghan war orphan has spurred a yearslong legal battle and raised alarms at the highest...
The Tactical Knife that Saved a Medal of Honor Recipient’s Life During Intense Hand-to-Hand Combat in Iraq Army Staff Sgt. David Bellavia received the Medal of Honor in recognition of his heroic actions during the Second Battle of...
