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8 May 2017, 6:15 am by Eric Quitugua
And legal issues make up five of the top 10 unmet needs of homeless veterans, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs. [read post]
8 Mar 2018, 6:01 am by Robert Kraft
The Department of Veterans Affairs has refused to release documents that might explain why at least one high-ranking VA official was exonerated after agency investigators initially named him as participating in a wide-ranging scheme at its Temple campus to defraud the VA and take advantage of vulnerable veterans. [read post]
22 May 2020, 12:13 pm by Eric Quitugua
Texas has the second-highest population of veterans in the nation, and with legal issues making up half of the unmet needs of homeless veterans—according to the Department of Veterans Affairs—access to free legal services is necessary for benefits and support for those who have served as well as their families. [read post]
19 Feb 2020, 6:44 am by Robert Kraft
The Department of Veterans Affairs is reviewing how it monitors patient wards, from staffing to video surveillance, amid an ongoing investigation of 10 suspicious patient deaths at a VA hospital in Clarksburg, West Virginia. [read post]
7 Dec 2018, 10:50 am by Richard J. Andreano, Jr.
The CFPB recently filed a complaint and a proposed stipulated final judgment and order to address claims that Village Capital & Investments LLC (Village) engaged in deceptive acts and practices in the solicitation of veterans for mortgage refinance loans to be guaranteed by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). [read post]
5 Jul 2011, 4:05 am by Howard Friedman
As previously reported, just before Memorial Day, a Texas federal district court issued a temporary restraining order preventing the Department of Veterans Affairs from regulating the content of the invocation and benediction that were to be delivered at a Memorial Day ceremony in Houston's National Cemetery. [read post]
13 Nov 2013, 7:00 am by Guest Blogger
Department of Veteran Affairs and a team of prosecutors, defense attorneys and others then work together to create an intense treatment program that provides structure, support and accountability. [read post]
14 Jul 2010, 2:55 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
    Helping Veterans Impacted by the Criminal Justice System   On July 13, the House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee and Subcommittee of Defense & Veterans' Affairs heard testimony on Joint Interim Charge 4: "Monitor the implementation of SB 1940 (81R), which established veterans court programs in Texas, and examine the link between combat stress disorders of war veterans, including post-traumatic stress disorder… [read post]
15 Nov 2006, 10:17 am
The Department of Veterans Affairs requires many detailed documents, including military discharge papers and a medical doctor's written evaluation. [read post]
23 Feb 2011, 7:49 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Department of Labor Veterans’ Employment and Training Service (VETS) on proposed regulations that would establish a uniform national threshold performance level to be applied to state grantees that provide employment services to veterans under both the Wagner-Peyser State Grants administered by the Labor Department’s Employment and Training Administration and the Jobs for Veterans State Grants administered by VETS. [read post]
27 Feb 2018, 6:11 am by Robert Kraft
The Department of Veterans Affairs failed to report 90% of potentially dangerous medical providers in recent years to a national database designed to prevent them from crossing state lines and endangering patients elsewhere, according to the GAO. [read post]
22 Sep 2022, 12:42 am by kblocher@hslf.org
Department of Veterans Affairs to help veterans with post-deployment mental health disorders by paring them with dogs to train as service animals, including animals from shelters, and enabling them to adopt a dog they helped train. [read post]
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) estimates that, as of September 30, 2014 (a year ago), Texas as a whole had approximately 1.68 million Veterans. [read post]
19 Oct 2009, 12:52 am
Under rules to be proposed this week, the Department of Veterans Affairs plans to add Parkinson's disease, ischemic heart disease and hairy-cell leukemia to the growing list of illnesses presumed to have been caused by Agent Orange, the toxic defoliant used widely in Vietnam. [read post]
23 Oct 2014, 3:43 am by Amy Howe
 Department of Veterans Affairs – would meet the requirements of the new law. [read post]
10 Dec 2018, 11:36 am by Matthew Moriarty
Department of Veterans Affairs and the Small Business Administration work to combine their two Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business programs. [read post]
19 Aug 2015, 7:31 am by Robert Kraft
Here are excerpts from the article: The Department of Veterans Affairs’ regional office in Waco has significantly reduced its backlog of pending disability claims, which once was among the worst in the nation, but despite the numbers, it’s unlikely to reach its goal of eliminating the entire backlog by the end of the year. [read post]