The case involves a veteran who left the Marine Corps in 2013 with an other-than-honorable discharge and was later denied disability benefits because of his discharge status.

VA officials said website updates have resulted in 16 million claims getting processed in the past five years, delivering $43 billion in tuition assistance and other benefits.

A House Veterans’ Affairs subcommittee examined a proposal to remove financial penalties on widowed spouses who remarry. More than 95% of eligible spouses opt not to remarry to avoid losing their dependency compensation.

Criteria the VA developed in 1945 do not align with modern medicine, employment and the impact of disabilities on a veteran’s earnings potential, the Government Accountability Office says.

The House Veterans’ Affairs subcommittee on health heard two bills for advancing research and care for traumatic brain injuries, which have been sustained by nearly a fifth of the 2.5 million veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The VA just awarded $77 million to cover the costs of adding thousands of more interment sites at state-owned veterans cemeteries near capacity and to open Alaska’s first state veterans cemetery.

The subsidized housing will provide veterans with traumatic brain injuries, mental illness and severe physical handicaps direct access to the West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Medical Center.

Military members and veterans can be at a disadvantage in getting checkups and screenings that can spot pre-cancerous growths and provide earlier diagnoses for colon cancer.

Health premiums are set to spike after Jan. 1 for 24 million Americans, including veterans and their dependents enrolled in discounted health insurance plans through the ACA marketplace.

The president’s directive stated that 30,000 doctors already prescribe “medical marijuana” to more than 6 million patients, including veterans, according to the executive order.