Military veterans are swamping the U.S. government with dubious disability claims — including cases of brazen fraud totaling tens of millions of dollars — that are exploiting the country’s sacred ...

WASHINGTON — Deploying artificial intelligence to process veterans’ claims faster and expanding access to free gravestones for families of deceased veterans are among 14 proposals that are headed to ...

This article first appeared on The War Horse, an award-winning nonprofit news organization educating the public on military service. Subscribe to their newsletter. It started in 2017 with a group of ...

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs incorrectly gave veterans about $5 billion more in disability compensation and pension payments than it should have in the ...

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WASHINGTON — Advocacy groups that help veterans file disability claims for free with the Department of Veterans Affairs are opposing a Republican-led bill that would enable commercial companies to ...

President Donald Trump's legislative agenda continues to reshape federal spending, with House Republicans proposing a $453 billion bill for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in fiscal year 2026.

The Department of Veterans Affairs now has an enormous amount of paperwork to correct after a staffer “blindly” approved thousands of disability claims without properly reviewing them for close to two ...

Trump administration policies, including budget cuts and a new directive, are negatively impacting health care access for veterans. The new directive allows VA doctors to refuse treatment to veterans ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) said in a Thursday press release that it has reduced the backlog for disability compensation by 25 percent, falling below 200,000 for the first time since March ...