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Kansas VA Office Mishandled VA Benefits Appeals Data
Fierce Health IT - Managers at a regional Veterans Affairs office in Kansas directed staff to enter incorrect...
Vietnam Vets Push VA to Link Bladder Cancer to Agent Orange
ProPublica - Alan Eller has spent more than a decade trying to convince the Department of Veterans Affairs that his...
Vets Hit VA With Federal Lawsuit Over Camp Lejeune Water Poisoning
Fox News - The quest for answers for thousands of veterans sickened -- in some cases terminally -- by contaminated...
VA Has Been Shredding Documents
According to an investigation by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of Inspector General (OIG), the...
Ralph Bratch Teaches Class on VA Advocate at Army JAG School
Ralph Bratch of Veterans Help Group was recently honored to be a guest lecturer at the Army JAG School on the campus...
VA Bosses in 7 States Falsified Vets’ Wait Times for Care
WASHINGTON — Supervisors instructed employees to falsify patient wait times at Veterans Affairs' medical facilities in...
VA Processing Error Held Up Benefits to 14,000 Vets
Stars and Stripes - The Veterans Affairs Department has discovered claims processing errors affecting about 14,000...
Agent Orange Benefit Screening Process Scrutinized in Congress
Stars and Stripes - The House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs is looking into whether a contractor thoroughly reviewed...
More Than 125,000 U.S. Vets of Iraq and Afghanistan Were Denied VA Benefits
The Fiscal Times - There seems to be a huge disconnect between the nation’s mounting concerns about suicides among...
VA Awards $8.6 Billion in Contracts To Increase VA Disability Examinations
VA.gov - The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) today announced the award of twelve major contracts that will enhance...
Report Finds Sharp Increase in Vets Denied VA Benefits
The New York Times - Joshua Bunn was a rifleman in one of the bloodiest valleys in Afghanistan, where his infantry...
VA Disability Compensation for Gulf War Vets
Daily Republic - According to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and the Institute of Medicine, approximately...
VA May Add More ‘Presumptive’ Illnesses for Vietnam Vets Exposed to Agent Orange
Stars and Stripes - By August this year many more thousands of Vietnam War veterans, those suffering from bladder...
Vets Want Past Discharges to Recognize Post-Traumatic Stress
The New York Times - Kristofer Goldsmith was discharged from the Army at the height of the Iraq war because he was not...
Bill Would Allow Local Doctors to Conduct Disability Exams for Vets Newly Seeking VA Benefits
Star Tribune - A bill sponsored by U.S. Sen. Al Franken and Rep. Tim Walz aimed at tackling the Department of Veterans...
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