Department of Veterans Affairs has done very little to promote advancements at the Board of Veterans Appeals including hiring Veterans Law Judges. So, I...

This election cycle, members of Congress are running on the promise of VA fixes without addressing commonly known loopholes like VA's failure to cover...

New regulations just went into effect for administering VA Pension benefits that also aims to protect veterans against “pension poachers.” Pension poachers are commonly known...

A new survey of VA employees now shows a majority of VA employees believe their leaders are honest, increasing from 46 percent to 54...

The Atlanta VA Medical Center just shuffled around a large portion of its leadership team after the facility was downgraded to among the worst...

The veterans’ organization Disabled American Veterans (DAV) just published a guide to dispelling myths about disabled veteran hiring and retention for American employers. In part...

VBA may have lauded its decision to disband the Office of Economic Opportunity, formerly led by Deputy Under Secretary Curtis Coy, until it created a...

Well, it is about that time of year for the bi-annual NOVA conference to educate veterans benefits lawyers about the newest tricks and schemes...

Kare 11 reporter AJ Lagoe highlighted the identities of two senior VA officials in charge of the systems responsible for screwing up TBI exams...

Veterans wondering how our resources are used to bolster certain offshore banking systems should look into Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire. I watched this a...

Despite promises from VA, our DNA sequences are no longer safe even if the agency removes your PII from health records used by private...

A pro-marijuana bill just passed through the House Judiciary Committee in an important step that could, if passed, give Congress control over medical marijuana...

Breitbart News just published a leaked Google briefing showing Google knows and approves of its own role in pushing European-style censorship onto Americans. The Google...

A recent GAO audit found numerous gaps in the new National Work Queue system rolled out by VA to address inefficiencies at certain regional...

IG just confirmed what everyone else already knew, that local West LA VA management thinks their obligations to homeless veterans are a complete joke. Despite...

Robert Wilkie apologized last week for a computer glitch resulting in many veterans not receiving their monthly GI Bill subsistence payments. The computer glitch resulted...

Cerner has pulled together a cadre of 24 health and tech companies to help it convert the Department of Veterans Affairs electronic health records...

MiMedx, the company that sells human fetal byproducts to hospitals, intentionally kept cheaper products off the product offerings for the Department of Veterans Affairs...

Facebook has continued its censorship of veterans news and issues from conservative voices, even those voices critical of President Donald Trump's policies related to...

Peter O’Rourke, the former Trump-campaign staffer who became the acting VA secretary after ousting David Shulkin is set to leave the agency as soon...

Reports are now surfacing of another veteran suicide in a health center parking lot immediately after discharge following observation about suicidal ideations. For the past...

The Department of Justice just settlement a massive qui tam lawsuit against one cancer drug company repackaged oncology drugs that were non-sterile and contaminated...

VA is engaged in a massive purge of its radiology backlist resulting in mass cancellation of hundreds of thousands of radiology orders leaving some...

Congress is concerned after a meeting a couple weeks ago where VA and DOD admitted they still do not have a governance structure in...

A former police officer at the Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center in Indianapolis will serve a year in prison for shoving a patient...

VA announced that it is ready to hire an additional 50 Veterans Justice Outreach (VJO) specialists, now that President Trump has signed the Veterans...

Hundreds of thousands of veterans attend institutions of higher education with help from the GI Bill. These are benefits that veterans rightfully earn by...

The VA Home-Based Primary Care Clinic in Jennings, Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana is under federal investigation for allegations of patient neglect, fraudulent billing, falsification...

With rumors of an impending government shutdown swirling, VA suddenly hauled off and bought a sweet stash of riot gear. They bought the gear...

Since I am in Denver investigating fraud, waste, and abuse this week, I wanted to give readers additional insight into the outlandish waste VA...

I just landed in Denver and plan to spend a fair amount of time here investigating fraud, waste, and abuse this week including working...

Three people have been arrested on charges of trying to steer U.S. government contracts toward particular companies in exchange for either bribes or fraudulent...

I wrote this yesterday right after getting off the phone with the newly confirmed director of VA Vocational Rehabilitation & Employment (VR&E) program Will Streitberger....

You may recall that we covered a company named MiMedx earlier. They are notorious for extolling the benefits of human placenta as a virtual...

When it comes to free mental health care, you apparently get what you pay for in quality and in the privacy of your VA...

VA announced yesterday that its Board of Veterans Appeals decided 25 percent more claims smashing numbers from the previous year by 28,000 more claims....

Talks of a government shutdown are circulating again pending votes from Congress to fund the federal government for the next year. In years past, veterans...

Scheming Diana Rubens set her retirement for the end of this month, but that should not stop Donald Trump from firing her, say numerous...

The Department of Veterans Affairs allows treatment of transgender veterans before and after surgery, but the agency is not presently conducting the surgeries itself. But...

Once again, Colorado Springs pulls to the front of the pack in quality-of-life assessments. This time, the focus is on veterans and citizens’ pride...

Former VA Secretary David Shulkin is in the news again, for a less controversial but still noteworthy reason: he has found new employment in...

President Donald Trump is allowing discredited Philadelphia RO director Diana Rubens (aka Dirty D) to retire at the end of this month rather than...

A new IG report about the traumatic brain injury scandal I first exposed in 2015 reveals Thomas Murphy, former acting VBA under secretary, failed...

A bipartisan group of lawmakers has written a letter to VA Secretary Robert Wilkie about medical marijuana and its potential to replace opioids for...

Remember Monk v. Wilkie. This is a gamechanger. Based on this federal court decision, in which an eight-judge panel reexamined the fairness of VA precedent...

A surgeon practicing in Albany, New York’s Stratton VA Medical Center misrepresented the outcomes of cancer surgeries to at least three patients. The OIG...

VA was required by law to update the GI Bill for August 1, but they still have not completed the necessary tech updates to...

An IG report released this week showed VA contractors administering the Veterans Choice Program were overpaid $100 million from March 2016 to March 2017. Bulk...

Stressed out employees referred to the Employee Assistance Program drug use were told they must sign an authorization for VA to access their medical...

Two pro bono legal groups have teamed up to fight for veterans seeking disability compensation for disabilities linked to Agent Orange exposure in a...

Journalism & Content Writer Internship For Credit This is an unpaid internship for college credit that is for veterans using their GI Bill or Vocational...

The VA Schedule for Rating Disabilities, also known as VASRD or simply “the rating schedule,” has undergone updates regarding evaluations for skin conditions. The...

From us at the publication DisabledVeterans.org, I want to wish you all a memorable Labor Day this September 2018. All the graphics I could find...

The Department of Defense has extended the eligibility period for the Military OneSource program. Formerly 180 days, the new timeframe for OneSource eligibility is...

An arbitration decision this week will force VA to rehire AFGE union employees fired from employment where the agency ignored its obligation to use...

VA general counsel Jim Byrne, the lead counterintelligence attorney hired from Lockheed Martin, was just named acting deputy secretary of the agency. Byrne was selected...

The Department of Veterans Affairs finally increased the headcount of its little known VA Vocational Rehabilitation program by hiring 20 percent more counselors. “The VR&E...

AFGE heralded Friday’s decision by a judge in the US District Court for the District of Columbia who ruled parts of President Donald Trump’s...

The interim CHIO Genevieve Morris resigned from her post after just one month leading VA in its project to transition from VA’s open course...

In a settlement worth a paltry $9.1 million, 3M agreed to pay the government after being caught covering up its defective earplugs called dual-ended...