Ask Lacey: Is Concurrent Retirement and Disability Pay Taxed? Concurrent Retirement and Disability Pay (CRDP) can be hard to wrap your head around, especially when it comes to taxes and...
Supreme Court Justices Question Potential Financial Impact of Ruling on Combat Disability Pay Case The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on a class-action suit that challenges a rule that requires veterans to file...
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...
Search Underway at VA for Key Under Secretary Positions for Health and Benefits The process, led by separate commissions chaired by VA Deputy Secretary Paul Lawrence, is expected to take months.
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...
Lawmakers Try Again on Bill to Give 50,000 Medically Retired Veterans Full VA Disability, Retirement Pay The Major Richard Star Act, which has been floated since 2020, has the support of more than 40 veterans' organizations and...
VA to Step Up Rollout of New Electronic Health Records System in 2026 The program, which is in use at six VA medical centers and affiliated clinics, has been stalled since 2022.
17 years after Cancer Diagnosis, Veterans Affairs Grants Navy Vet Service-Related Benefits Fifty-seven years ago, Paul Critchett was a 20-year-old machinist in the U.S. Navy, stationed in the waters off the coast of...
The Office that Investigates Disparities in Veterans’ Care Is Being 'Liquidated' The Trump administration has shut down a unit of the Department of Veterans Affairs created under President Joe Biden to...
Supreme Court Upholds VA Court Decision Not to Review 'Benefit-of-the-Doubt' Evidence in Veterans' Claims In a 7-2 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court said last week that, while the Department of Veterans Affairs should favor veterans...
Hegseth Restricts Press Access at Pentagon, Says Journalists Will Be Required to Sign Pledge Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has taken yet another step to curtail the work of the press inside the Pentagon by imposing...
Here Are All the Big Cuts and Changes Coming to the Army The service's aim is to streamline the force while investing in emerging technologies that Army officials say are critical to...
Veterans' VA Referrals to Private Medical Care Will No Longer Require Additional Doctor Review The VA announced that it is enacting a provision of the Senator Elizabeth Dole 21st Century Veterans Healthcare and Benefits...
WWII Bomber Crash Left 11 Dead and 'Non-Recoverable.' 4 Are Finally Coming Home More than 200 people honored Staff Sgt. Eugene Darrigan, some waving flags from the sidewalk during the procession to the...
Pentagon Sends 1,100 More Troops to Border in Continued Mission Ramp-Up The Pentagon is sending 1,115 additional troops to the U.S.-Mexico border from over half a dozen units across the different...
