Veterans Affairs

The Department of Veterans Affairs failed to pay non-VA doctors, leaving veterans without care, in debt and sending them to collections agencies, according to a newly released report from the U.S. Office of Special Counsel.

Nearly 120,000 women will finally receive veteran status for their service in World War II when Congress' annual defense spending bill becomes law.

The Department of Veterans Affairs is doing away with evaluating its hospitals, clinics and other medical facilities on star-rating scale of 1-5.

The Department of Veterans Affairs staff tasked with preventing veteran suicides by identifying high-risk vets and making sure they get help are "overworked" and "unable to keep up" with demand, Congress says.

This is the second gambling facility VA has opened to address addiction.

The settlement of that lawsuit will be split evenly between the 82 veterans involved in the case.

VA is expected to begin processing Blue Water Navy Vietnam veteran claims for Agent Orange-connected illnesses on Jan. 1, 2020, after a lawsuit failed to force VA to begin earlier.

House Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Rep. Mark Takano, D-Calif., and Rep. Josh Harder, another California Democrat, sent a letter to the White House recently demanding the administration step aside and allow VA to extend disability benefits for four Agent Orange-linked diseases.

Veteran deaths by suicide are increasing, despite billions of dollars and hundreds of public and private efforts to help. The rate of veterans who die by overdose is more than twice that of civilians.

Despite partisan infighting in the House Veterans Affairs Committee, a bill to provide federal grants to community groups to help combat suicide passed to the House floor.