VA Delays Change to How It Reimburses Veterans' Ambulance Services Amid Fears for Rural Providers The department announced last week that it would extend its current policy while it works to ensure that any changes won't...
VA Plans Outreach to Screen 3 Million More Veterans for Toxic Exposures The PACT Act requires the VA to attempt to screen all veterans enrolled in VA health care; to date, 4.8 million veterans have...
VA Pauses Foreclosures on Veterans Facing Difficulties Making Mortgage Payments The announcement came after a National Public Radio report called attention to the plight of 34,000 veterans having trouble...
Transgender Veterans Group Threatens VA with Lawsuit over Yearslong Delay in Covering Surgeries Lawyers for the Transgender American Veterans Association said not providing the surgeries has "increased risk of physical...
Veteran Suicides Ticked Upward in 2021 Following 2 Years of Decline, Latest VA Statistics Show Nearly 6,400 veterans died by suicide in 2021, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs annual report.
VA Defends Crisis Line's Special Unit After Whistleblowers Allege It's Failing Veterans "Our top priority with the VCL is to make sure that veterans get the support they need, whenever and wherever they need it --...
Veteran Psychedelic Therapy Gets Cautious Support at First House Hearing of Its Kind Since 1960s The House Veterans Affairs Subcommittee on Health heard from expert witnesses at the VA and veterans groups on potential...
'Complex' Calls to VA Crisis Line Being Handed Off to Understaffed, Undertrained Unit, Whistleblowers Allege Whistleblowers have told Congress that callers to the Veterans Crisis Line who present difficult cases are being transferred...
Caregivers of Veterans Spend $11,500 on Average Each Year on Expenses, New Data Shows Research from AARP and the National Alliance for Caregiving doesn't explore the reasons behind the higher costs, but experts...
CHAMPVA and Medicare Part D If you are enrolled in the CHAMPVA program should you choose to participate in Medicare Part D.
DoDEA America's Chief of Staff Arrested in Human Trafficking Sting Operation in Georgia Stephen Hovanic, 64, of Sharpsburg, Georgia, was arrested Nov. 15 in a sting that netted 25 additional suspects on charges...
Pentagon's AI Initiatives Accelerate Hard Decisions on Lethal Autonomous Weapons The Pentagon is intent on fielding multiple thousands of relatively inexpensive, expendable AI-enabled autonomous vehicles by...
VA Plans Outreach to Screen 3 Million More Veterans for Toxic Exposures The PACT Act requires the VA to attempt to screen all veterans enrolled in VA health care; to date, 4.8 million veterans have...
Texas Tried to Block an Air Force Spouse's Occupational License. She Sued and Won, Setting a Legal Precedent. A federal judge in Texas ruled that the Texas Education Agency violated the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act.
Navy Modifies 'Up or Out' Policy by Giving Sailors Who Don't Advance an Option to Fill Critical Jobs The blunting of the sometimes controversial high-year tenure rules is yet another policy change the Navy has taken that aims...
