'Complex' Veterans Crisis Line Calls Passed Off to Undertrained Responders, Watchdog Report Finds In response to the GAO findings, the VA promised to assess the outcomes of calls to the complex unit compared to the main...
Here's How to Maximize VA Benefits over Your Lifetime VA benefits can play a critical role in a veteran's financial plan. Here's a three-tiered look at how to make the most of...
Tricking Veterans: Using Suicide and Mental Health Struggles as a Guise for Privatizing the VA While attention remains focused on the looming crisis of Department of Veterans Affairs employees facing termination, an even...
Do They or Don't They? Secretary Won't Say Whether VA DOGE Employees Have Access to Medical Records When questioned by Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff about DOGE activities at the VA, the secretary said three employees are...
VA to End Medical Research on Primates as Animal Rights Group Cheers the Move The department has pledged it will meet an end-of-the-year deadline early for halting spinal cord injury research that used...
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...
Trump Nominates Army Veteran, VA Adviser as Under Secretary for Benefits The White House also has forwarded a nomination to serve as the department's chief information officer.
Who's Winning the Multibillion-Dollar Battle over Veterans Benefits? With lobbying and lawsuits, for-profit companies scored two recent victories in the courts and on Capitol Hill.
VA Changes Discrimination Policy for Health Care Staff, Denies Doctors Could Withhold Treatment The department said the change was made in order to comply with executive orders and the updates would "have no impact...
A Navy Veteran Is Determined to Find His Own Way Through PTSD—Without VA Each appointment with VA was another nail sealing the coffin shut, suffocating any hope that they could help me.
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...
