A federal watchdog reported findings from a review of an automated compensation calculator that was part of a web-based benefits management system. Errors resulted when the calculator was figuring payments for certain disability combinations.
Lawmakers on Thursday voted 9-6 at a hearing of the committee’s subpanel on military construction, veterans affairs and related agencies to advance the GOP-led bill to the full committee for consideration. The bill would is an increase of more than $50 billion from 2025.
Army Staff Sgt. William Owens was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service Cross at a ceremony for extraordinary heroism displayed during the Allied invasion of Normandy more than eight decades ago.
Advocacy groups that help veterans file disability claims for free with the Department of Veterans Affairs are opposing a Republican-led bill that would enable commercial companies to charge thousands of dollars for the same service.
Soldiers with the 101st Airborne Division were part of a convoy of vintage World War II vehicles weaving through back roads near Carentan, France, where American paratroopers fought just days after the D-Day landings.
Chuck Xander is the first veterans-embedded counselor on a college campus in Iowa, the first in the Big Ten, and one of the first dedicated to military-connected students in the nation. So far, he’s seen about 100 military and veteran students.
Congress has appropriated a $31.7 billion increase to the $369.1 billion spending plan to cover veterans disability compensation and medical care through the Toxic Exposures Fund that is required under federal law.
A grandfather and Navy veteran killed in a home explosion in Gladstone, Mo., Saturday is being remembered by his family, who have started a GoFundMe to help pay for his funeral expenses.
Army veteran Winston Hencely, who sued a defense contractor over injuries from a suicide bombing in Afghanistan, will have his case reviewed by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Organizers of a veteran-led rally scheduled for June 6 in the nation’s capital said they expect about 20,000 people to turn out for a protest against plans by the Department of Veterans Affairs for large staffing cuts and the elimination of hundreds of contracts for veterans services.