Op-Ed: The Time For Caregiver Expansion Is Now Vets injured after 9/11 are eligible for an array of benefits, but those injured before are excluded from the program.
Disabled Vet's Service Dog Shot in Head, Dumped Near Railroad Tracks The dog belonged to a 14-year U.S. Army veteran in Richwood, Ky., who relied on the service animal for safety.
War Hero Who Started National Movement to Help Wounded Vets Dies at 95 Irwin Stovroff, a decorated WWII hero held as a POW by the Nazis, later created a group to provide service dogs to vets.
VA May Expand List of Ailments for Agent Orange Coverage: Shulkin VA Secretary Dr.David Shulkin said Monday that he's decided to expand the list of ailments eligible for Agent Orange...
Army Offers Medical Help for Veterans Injured in Chem-Bio Agent Tests The U.S. Army is notifying vets that they may be eligible to receive care if they participated in testing from 1942 to 1975.
New VA Advisory Council to Highlight Family, Caregiver Issues Caregiver, survivor and veteran family issues soon will be pushed directly to the Department of Veterans Affairs' top...
Severance Pay Taxes Incorrectly Withheld Must Now Be Refunded As many as 14,000 veterans had tax incorrectly withheld from disability severance pay by military. New law makes DOD give it...
VA Now Paying Compensation To Victims of Contaminated Lejeune Water VA will now pay disability compensation in addition to providing medical care to those affected by water contamination at...
VA Begins Update of Disability Ratings The Schedule for Rating Disabilities is undergoing its first complete overhaul since it was written in 1945.
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...