Newsweek offers a round‑up of the major Veteran Affairs initiatives announced so far this year.

A comparative analysis of select wait-time data for new patients at more than 100 medical centers indicates the department ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs has reinstated a foreclosure prevention option through a new partial claim program, authorized under the 2025 VA Home Loan Program Reform Act. The move follows the ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs has raised disability compensation by 2.8%, added new qualifying conditions, and reduced ...

For students and dependents relying on Chapter 35 VA benefits, understanding exactly when payments arrive can make a real ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs is modernizing its systems to allow veterans' medical records to follow them more ...

The lawsuit claims that the VA has blocked eligible veterans from receiving benefits under the Montgomery GI Bill and the Post-9/11 GI Bill for undergraduate and graduate degrees. A lawsuit filed by ...

During the past administration, the Department of Veterans Affairs failed to meet the basic health care needs of the men and women who served this country. Too often, veterans are met with canceled ...

WASHINGTON — The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to launch an automated fraud-detection tool to scan more than a million disability benefits questionnaires for evidence of fabrication or other ...

WASHINGTON — A federal watchdog warned lawmakers that the Department of Veterans Affairs needs to fully revise the 80-year-old criteria for awarding disability payments or risk miscalculating benefits ...

Helping veterans get through the red tape of applying for VA disability benefits has become a multibillion-dollar industry over the past decade. Which might be surprising, because charging vets for ...

When I was a primary care provider in the Department of Veterans Affairs health care system, it wasn’t my job to think about all 9.1 million veterans enrolled in VA care. My role was to sit one-on-one ...