Veterans Face Vast Inequities Over Disability
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Veterans face serious inequities in compensation depending on where they live, an analysis by The New York Times has found.
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War veterans will be able to go to the front of the queue for digital hearing aids on the NHS, say ministers.
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When in doubt, tilt toward the veteran. That's what the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has suggested to government agencies in two cases involving federal employees who had served in the military reserves and petitioned for back pay because of improperly charged military leave.
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More than 25 percent of the homeless population in the United States are war veterans, although they represent only 11 percent of the civilian adult population, according to a report to be released Thursday.
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Thousands of Iraq war veterans who could have suffered traumatic brain injury may be getting unnecessary or inadequate health care because Veterans Affairs officials have yet to determine whether their initial screening tests are reliable, investigators say.
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The Veterans Affairs' system for handling disability claims is strained to its limit, and the Bush administration's current efforts to relieve backlogs won't be enough to serve veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, investigators said Tuesday.
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Reports of bureaucratic entanglement dominated a hearing today on how wounded veterans are treated.
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The Veterans Charitable Foundation is making a patriotic fund-raising pitch to many Massachusetts residents: 100 percent of every donation goes directly to help veterans with wheelchairs, medical equipment, and family aid.
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After years of fighting in vain for what he believed disabled war veterans deserved, David W. Gorman is on the verge of getting more than he asked for.
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An investigation finds people with mental health problems and learning disabilities often receive poor treatment.
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Nearly a third of veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan who received care from Veterans Affairs between 2001 and 2005 were diagnosed with mental health or psychosocial ills, a new study concludes. Of nearly 104,000 veterans studied, more than half (56 percent) were diagnosed with two or more disorders.
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The proposals would pull apart a convoluted system that gave both the Defense Department and the Department of Veterans Affairs authority over determining benefits and care provided to injured soldiers.
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The military's medical community got a black eye that "we didn't completely deserve" about conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, the top Pentagon health official said Thursday at a ribbon cutting for a new amputee center.
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As the nation struggles to improve medical and mental health care for military personnel returning from Afghanistan and Iraq, about 1.8 million  U.S. veterans under age 65 lack even basic health insurance or access to care at Veterans  Affairs hospitals, a new study has found.
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Nearly 1.7 million U.S. veterans had no health care coverage in 2003 -- no access to private insurance, to Medicare or Medicaid or to the Veterans Affairs health program, health care advocates said on Tuesday.
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The Department of Veterans Affairs this week doubled the disability benefits of a West Virginia soldier who has been fighting for more compensation since he returned from Iraq, and assured him that he will receive immediate access to more mental health services to treat his post-traumatic stress...
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The Bush administration said on Tuesday problems in the treatment of wounded U.S. war veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan need to be fixed, after reports that many face neglect in the Army's medical system.