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What troops need to know about the basic needs allowance in 2024
Learn about the basic needs allowance and more in Military Times' 2024 Pay and Benefits Guide.
By Karen Jowers
Advocates fear growing backlash against aid for homeless veterans
Activists worry that laws aimed at penalizing homelessness and a lack of support resources will hurt efforts to help veterans.
VA urges mortgage firms to extend foreclosure pause until next year
A moratorium on foreclosures of VA-backed home loans is set to expire at the end of the week.
VA says its trust scores among veterans are at highest level ever
More than four in five veterans surveyed said they trust the department's programs and outreach efforts.
Pentagon mulls special pay boost to fix health care personnel shortage
Officials blamed the shortage on an inability to set competitive pay and other instances of bureaucratic red tape slowing the onboarding of workers.
The group aiming to stop ‘endemic’ suicide among Native American vets
A group recently launched a program to address a rise in suicide among American Indian and Alaska Native veterans.
He saw Dachau’s horrors — now, this vet warns against Holocaust denial
100-year-old WWII vet Hilbert Margol was a part of the 42nd Infantry Division that liberated the Dachau concentration camp on April 29, 1945.
Exposed to Agent Orange at US bases, vets face cancer without VA help
A proposed VA rule would allow compensation to veterans for Agent Orange exposure at 17 U.S. bases, but some say certain bases are missing.
By Hannah Norman and Patricia Kime, Daily Montanan