The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has announced a major three-part initiative to simplify and speed up how survivors and dependents of deceased veterans and service members access VA benefits.

The federal budget proposes to change how veterans' disability pensions are indexed — something advocates say could cost ...

The Veteran Affairs Department is aiming to improve the process by which survivors obtain their benefits by again moving an office designed to serve a central resource for information on those ...

As the head of the Department of Veterans’ Affairs (VA) is pointing his finger at Democrats for the ongoing government shutdown, national organizations are pointing fingers back regarding fraud and ...

Can U.S. military veterans use their Department of Veterans Affairs benefits to help pay for long-term care? The short answer is yes, but as with most government programs, it’s complicated. Here, we ...

The leading Democrat on the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee vowed to fix the system for approving benefits to the families of veterans who die by suicide after a CNN investigation revealed how the ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs kicked off 2025 by extending the GI Bill education benefits of a million veterans. Veterans who earned both Montgomery GI Bill and Post-9/11 GI Bill benefits while ...

WASHINGTON — If the federal government shuts down after midnight Sept. 30 over a funding impasse in Congress, the Department of Veterans Affairs would keep sending veterans their monthly pensions and ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced that its mobile app has now accumulated more than 3 million downloads since its launch in 2021. The Health and Benefits app, which has 1.4 million ...

I’m a veteran who relied on Department of Veterans Affairs medical care and earned a disability rating through years of honest assessment, documentation and examinations. That experience matters — ...

For far too many American veterans, serving our country is followed by serving time. Combat-related trauma and other “invisible injuries” complicate the difficult transition from military to civilian ...