Gold Star Spouses Describe Pain of Losing Bereavement Benefits in Remarriage For Gold Star spouses, the pain of losing their husbands in the line of duty can be almost unbearable.
Life Unexpected: Gold Star Spouse Finds Therapy Through Writing and Family Many people haven't gotten married or started a career by 23. Meanwhile, Vail was already a war widow and serving as an Army...
Widow of Air Force Missileer Who Died of Cancer Secures VA Benefits After Yearslong Fight The widow of an Air Force missileer who died of non-Hodgkin lymphoma has finally secured Department of Veterans Affairs...
Memorial Day vs. Veterans Day: Here's the Difference Memorial Day is a solemn day of remembrance for those who died in military service, while Veterans Day is a day to honor all...
More Burial and Funeral Costs Can Now Be Covered by Veterans Benefits The expanded benefits comes after the department earlier this year made a push to encourage more veterans to use the burial...
Troops Get New Bereavement Leave for Loss of Spouse or Child The benefit was included among the quality-of-life initiatives in the fiscal 2022 National Defense Authorization Act.
VA Wants Vets to Use Their Benefits When Choosing a Final Resting Place Officials say that benefits offered by the National Cemetery Administration are the most underutilized of veterans' perks.
'Widow's Tax' on Survivors Will Be Completely Gone as of Feb. 1 Benefit Checks The surviving spouses of military retirees who receive income from two separate benefit programs will no longer have their...
Retirees to Get a Second Chance to Enroll In or Opt Out of the Survivor Benefit Plan Military retirees who opted out of the Survivor Benefit Plan will get a rare second chance to enroll.
In Their Own Words: Military Widows Honor Their Husbands There is no one to whom Memorial Day means more than the family of those killed in defense of our nation. These are their...
Pentagon Says US Doesn't Want to Pursue War with Iran After Bombing 3 of its Nuclear Sites The mission, called “Operation Midnight Hammer,” involved decoys and deception, and met with no Iranian resistance, Hegseth...
Hegseth Cancels Massive Contract for Military Family Moves, Pledges Fixes The company, HomeSafe Alliance, had been struggling to manage the U.S. military's domestic moves this year.
How the US Bombarded Iranian Nuclear Sites Without Detection “Our B-2s went in and out and back without the world knowing at all,” Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth told reporters Sunday...
ICE Arrests Russian National at Marine Corps Installation in Hawaii Military police at Marine Corps Base Hawaii stopped Anastasiia Vorobeva on June 12 at an entry control point on the southern...
Afghan Ally Who Aided the US Military Caught in Trump's Immigration Dragnet An Afghan man who fled to the United States after he says his brother was murdered by the Taliban in retaliation for working...
