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VA to Target Claims Older than One Year

On April 26th, 2013 by Rob Kane

Stars and Stripes –  A local veterans organization is skeptical about a recent decision by the Department of Veterans Affairs target claims older than a year for completion by 2015. Veterans whose claims fall in that time frame will be given a provisional rating and will have one year after receiving the rating to [...]

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Battle on Homefront: Vets Ill-Cared For, Struggle to Adjust

On March 27th, 2013 by Rob Kane

RT News - Recent US Military campaigns have seen 2.2 million veterans returning home to face mental, physical and financial issues. A recent report has revealed that almost half struggle to readjust, and that federal agencies could have offered them better support. The research, conducted by the Institute of Medicine (IOM), assessed the readjustment needs [...]

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Women Veterans Seminar: Obstacles to Care and Resources

On March 21st, 2013 by Rob Kane

Women are the fastest growing cohort in the veteran population, and over the next 20 years, women veterans are projected to double in ranks to an estimated 15 percent of the veteran population. Despite their growing numbers, women veterans are an underserved population. While the VA and other programs have made great strides in recent years to [...]

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A Pattern of Problems at a Hospital for Veterans

On March 19th, 2013 by Rob Kane

NY Times – In an unusually strong letter sent to the White House on Monday, the office that handles complaints from federal whistle-blowers says it has found a pattern of problems at a Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in Jackson, Miss., that raises serious questions about the hospital’s management practices. The problems over [...]

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Candidate Wants to Raise Gas Tax for Veterans’ Care

On October 9th, 2012 by Rob Kane

If our government finds it necessary to ship our soldiers overseas, it should find it necessary in the budget to provide ample care for those men and women. If we do not have it in the budget, we must increase our budget to ensure that our obligations to our soldiers and veterans are fully [...]

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Fertility Services for Veterans

On August 27th, 2012 by Rob Kane

NY Times – One of the unexpected and little-noted consequences of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has been an increase in the number of service members whose battlefield wounds leave them unable to have children. One apparent reason is the type of combat: when troops on foot patrols are struck by improvised bombs, [...]

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Troubled Veterans Left Without Health Care Benefits

On August 14th, 2012 by Rob Kane

Seattle Times – More than 20,000 men and women exited the Army and Marines during the past four years with other-than-honorable discharges that can restrict their veterans health-care and disability benefits. Critics says those rules leave some troubled combat veterans struggling to find treatment and support. A few weeks after Jarrid Starks ended his [...]

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Why I Quit the VA

On May 1st, 2012 by Rob Kane

TIME (by Mark Thompson) – Nicholas Tolentino spelled out the reasons he resigned from New Hampshire’s main Department of Veterans Affairs health center Wednesday before the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs. While his prepared remarks also detail just how flexible the VA’s data are when it comes to showing that vets are getting adequate mental-health care, [...]

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New Medical Forms Will Streamline Veterans Claims Process

On October 26th, 2010 by Benjamin Phillips

New Medical Forms Will Streamline Veterans Claims Process: Physician Questionnaires to Boost Disability Exam Efficiency WASHINGTON – The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has released three new disability benefits questionnaires for physicians of Veterans applying for VA disability compensation benefits. This initiative marks the beginning of a major reform of the physicians’ guides and [...]

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