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...
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...
VA Warns Congress that Benefits Payments Are at Risk Due to Projected $15 Billion Budget Shortfall The VA said it is working with the White House and Congress to address the budget shortfalls in a way that doesn't harm...
VA's Threat to Withhold Disability Checks over Decades-Old Separation Pay Surprises Vets Some veterans who received bonuses from the Defense Department to leave the service are learning they have to pay back the...
Trump Is Renaming 7 Army Installations. Here Are the Stories Behind the Names Being Scrubbed. President Donald Trump's announcement is the administration's latest move in its concerted effort to shift the people and...
Veteran Who Fired at Gunman and Inadvertently Killed Utah Protester Was a Safety Volunteer, Organizers Say Police said that the permit for the protest did not specify that there would be armed security, and that the role and...
Air Force Lowered Annual Recruiting Goal Due to Budget Woes, But Still on Track to Hit Target This Month The Air Force had to reduce its target recruiting goal by several thousand airmen due to ongoing congressional budget delays...
‘They’re Taking Shirly’: An Army Sergeant Thought His Family Was Safe. Then, ICE Deported His Wife. For tens of thousands of U.S. service members with undocumented family members, there’s no guaranteed protection from...
Air Force's Bunker-Buster Bomb Could Take Out Iran Nuclear Facility, But Israel Hints at Other Options The Israeli campaign to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons will be considered a failure if the centrifuges deep...
