by Tbird | Feb 25, 2018 | VA News
Sec. Shulkin supports extending caregiver benefits under the following conditions: The current 26,000 caregivers should be protected from the following changes. Current caregiver fall under Tier 1 which provides the benefit if your injuries prevent you from performing...
by Tbird | Jan 1, 2018 | VA News
[no_toc] House rejects proposed funding fix for VA Choice program PBS NewsHour-Jul 25, 2017 WASHINGTON — The House has rejected a plan to allow the Department of Veterans Affairs to shift $2 billion from other programs to cover a sudden budget shortfall in its Choice...
by Tbird | Nov 21, 2017 | VA News
When you get an other than honorable discharge or a bad conduct discharge or a dishonorable discharge, you lose virtually all of your access to Veterans Affairs benefits. From the article “When service members separate from the military, their futures depend on...
by Tbird | Nov 17, 2017 | VA News
[no_toc] So many stories of VA not doing right by their veterans. Here’s another this time, Bay Pines VA. When a hospital has to pause surgeries there is clearly something that went wrong. The OIG investigated a complaint that a thoracic surgeon was incompetent...
by WPTangerine | Oct 16, 2017 | VA News
Replaces Current ‘30-day/40-mile’ System With Patient/Provider-centric Decision-making WASHINGTON — Today, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced that it has presented the House and Senate Veterans Affairs Committees with the administration’s draft...
