VA Hosting 'Week of Action' to Spread Word About PACT Act Benefits More than 90 events are scheduled across the country to help veterans enroll in health care, file claims and screen for...
How We Breathe Is the Key to an Effective New Treatment for Anxiety and PTSD The Department of Veterans Affairs estimates that up to 20% of those who served in Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from some kind...
Veterans File Record Number of Disability Claims, Putting Pressure on Backlog More than 113,000 claims have been filed since August, VA Secretary Denis McDonough said this week.
Record Pay Increase Likely Coming for Disabled Veterans and Military Retirees in 2023 Disabled veterans and military retirees will likely see record pay increases in 2023 thanks to COLA changes.
Individual Unemployability And VA Disability The Individual Unemployability benefit provides greater monthly compensation benefits to qualified veterans.
VA Family Caregiver Benefits for 'Legacy' Veterans Extended Through 2025 While a review of the program's eligibility criteria is underway, participants in the Program of Comprehensive Assistance for...
This Army Vet's Headache-Fighting Invention Just Got Bought by the Air Force Joe Meisch needed a device that didn't exist – so he built it. It worked so well, he started donating them to veterans...
Veteran Disability Compensation Veterans with a service-related disability may qualify for over $3,300 in monthly VA disability compensation benefits.
Veterans Can Get More Time to Pay Back Debts to VA Under Extended Program The Department of Veterans Affairs is extending relief to veterans who may be struggling to repay benefit debts due to...
A Powerful Movie Tells the Tragic, True Story of a Marine Veteran's Struggles with the VA "Breaking" is a new movie that tells the story of Marine veteran Brian Brown-Easley, who served in Kuwait and Iraq.
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...
![Biden signs PACT Act of 2022.](http://images01.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2022-12/ApNewsroom_Biden_Veterans_98650.jpg?itok=ft7fLLBn "President Joe Biden claps after giving the pen he used to sign the "PACT Act of 2022" to Brielle Robinson, daughter of Sgt. 1st Class Heath Robinson, who died of cancer two years ago, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House, Aug. 10, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)")
![Secretary of Veterans Affairs Denis McDonough.](http://images02.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2022-08/ApNewsroom_Biden_Veterans_92968.jpg?itok=0WAsHQDI "Secretary of Veterans Affairs Denis McDonough speaks during an event before President Joe Biden signs the "PACT Act of 2022" during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House, Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)")
![John Boyega Breaking](http://images04.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2022-08/BREAKING%20Official%20Image.jpeg.jpg?itok=vcN9oMRu "John Boyega stars in the Marine Corps veteran drama "Breaking." (Bleecker Street)")
