Researchers Say Older Vets with COVID-19 Had Higher Survival Rates in VA Hospitals Researchers said the observations suggest that the VA consider working more closely with community hospitals to maintain...
VA Still Challenged to Provide Veterans Timely Health Care, Watchdog Says After more than a decade, veteran access to timely health care is still the No. 1 challenge for the Department of Veterans...
GOP Accepts Biden's Spending Boosts for VA, Pentagon in Debt Ceiling Deal Spending on defense and veterans health care would both see bumps next year under a deal between the White House and House...
This Memorial Day, VA Adds More than 300,000 Veterans to its Legacy Memorial Project Site The website contains interactive landing pages for 4.8 million veterans buried in VA cemeteries and elsewhere.
Veteran High-Tech Job Training Program Could Be Renewed for 5 Years The House on voted 409-9 to approve a bill that would extend the Veteran Employment Through Technology Education Courses...
VA Issues New Warning that Default Could Have 'Catastrophic' Effects for Veterans VA Secretary Denis McDonough said Wednesday there is "no blueprint for what could happen."
VA Can't Account for $187 Million in Emergency COVID-19 Funding The department received nearly $37 billion in additional funding to address the COVID-19 pandemic but now says it is free to...
VA Claims Backlog Expected to Grow to 400K, Largely Due to the PACT Act The VA expects its disability claims backlog to spike in the coming year but has a goal to reduce it to 100,000 by 2025.
VA Signs New, Tougher Contract with Company Handling Faulty Electronic Health Records Rollout The new contract calls for five renewable one-year terms, rather than another five-year term, to provide the VA more leverage...
Republicans Vow to Boost Veteran Spending Amid Debt Ceiling Fight The GOP bill would give the VA about $153 billion in discretionary funding in 2024, up from $135 billion that the department...
Trump Reportedly Weighs Immediate Discharge of All Transgender Troops. Here's What That Would Mean. The proposed plan, as first reported by the Times of London, would entail signing an order within days of Trump taking office...
The Best Amazon Black Friday Week 2024 Deals for Service Members, Veterans and Their Families America’s favorite shopping holiday isn’t just a single day, or even a weekend, anymore. Here’s how U.S. service members...
Overseas Troops to See Fewer Sweets, More Sweet Potatoes on Their Holiday Tables This Year For some unexplained reason, the Defense Logistics Agency is shipping 800% more sweet potatoes overseas than it did last...
For Soldiers at Fort Carson, Food Is Scarce As Americans gather for Thanksgiving feasts, soldiers at Fort Carson, Colorado, are contending with a far less festive...
Musk, Ramaswamy Proposal to Slash Spending Could Include VA Medical Services Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy confirmed that they plan to target "unauthorized" federal spending, a category that includes...