Veterans Benefits Administration

FILE - This June 21, 2013, file photo, shows the seal affixed to the front of the Department of Veterans Affairs building in Washington. In a federal lawsuit filed this week, U.S. Navy veteran from South Carolina says he ended up with “full-blown AIDS,” because government health care workers never informed him of his positive test result in 1995. He says the test was done as part of standard lab tests at a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in Columbia, South Carolina. A V.A. spokeswoman says the agency typically does not comment on pending litigation. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

VA hiring to ‘maximum capacity’ to assist vets seeking PACT Act benefits

The Veterans Benefits Administration is looking to bring several thousand hires onboard to “maximize its capacity”, as it prepares to implement legislation…

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Veterans deal with unique financial and lifestyle challenges

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VA’s first permanent chief data officer Kshemendra Paul leaving agency

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Lawmakers, veterans support organizations pitch new VA administration for education, employment

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VBA needs to tighten up procedures to get poison-water benefits to Camp Lejeune veterans

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Iraqi army units are deployed during military operations of the Iraqi Army's Seventh Brigade in Anbar, Iraq, Sunday, Dec. 29, 2019. An Iraqi general said Sunday that security has been beefed up around the Ain al-Asad air base, a sprawling complex in the western Anbar desert that hosts U.S. forces, following a series of attacks. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Pentagon says military needs to adapt to increasingly hotter world

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In this nutty market, can veterans actually buy a home with the VA home loan program?

Veterans Affairs

Superintendent Keith Stadler, left, and Vice President Kamala Harris touch a headstone belonging to Inez Crittenden during a tour of Suresnes American Cemetery in Suresnes, France on Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2021. Inez Crittenden of Oakland, Calif., led a team of 232 bilingual switchboard operators known as the

How automation is showing a lot of promise in approving veterans’ survivors dependency claims

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McDonough warns of ‘deleterious’ impact of full-year continuing resolution on VA operations

Veterans Affairs

This Oct. 24, 2016, photo shows dollar bills in New York. Fraudsters are increasingly picking up the phone and trying to steal your money by pretending to be a government worker or a family member in trouble. In 2016, impostor scams overtook identity theft to become the second-most reported fraud, according to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

The Veterans Benefits Administration takes on fraud against veterans

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Those military burn pit veterans have help in representing their claims

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Certain veterans can now sign up for disability from burn pit exposure

The Veterans Benefits Administration is about to start paying disability benefits for those exposed to fumes from burn pits in the Middle East as far back…

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Lessons learned from a former VA undersecretary

After spending three years as Undersecretary for Veterans Benefits during the Trump administration, Paul Lawrence has learned a few lessons.

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Cloud Exchange: VA leaning on cloud services to accelerate application modernization

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This discussion with Dave Catanoso, the director of Enterprise Cloud Solutions at the Department of Veterans Affairs, is part of Federal News Network’s Cloud Exchange.