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Veterans, retirees get 8.7% Social Security cost-of-living boost

The move will directly affect about 65 million Americans receiving Social Security benefits.

By Leo Shane III

8 months ago

U.S. Air Force Maj. Brandon Bailey, 332nd Expeditionary Operations Support Squadron medical crew director, awaits the arrival of patients from a forward operating base in Mosul, Iraq, on Sept. 23, 2008, during a "Bandage Mission." Bandage Missions travel to different FOBs throughout Iraq and pick up patients and transport them to the Air Force Theater Hospital in Joint Base Balad, Iraq. (Staff Sgt. Aaron Allmon/Air Force)

A major was kicked out for stealing narcotics. Then he took $820,000 from the Air Force.

For the past two years, former Air Force Maj. Brandon Bailey has been the subject of a federal investigation into a complex web of financial and bankruptcy fraud he spun over the course of a decade.

By Rachel S. Cohen

15 months ago

Veterans will see same cost-of-living boost in 2021 as Social Security beneficiaries

Social Security officials will announce their plans for a COLA boost in coming weeks.

By Leo Shane III

3 years ago

Trump administration made last minute fix to issue of seniors receiving stimulus checks

We are calling on the administration to immediately reverse its course and automatically add the benefits that these individuals have the right to receive.

By Will Attig

3 years ago

Bankrupt vets can lose their disability benefits. This new effort would protect them.

The HAVEN Act is trying to create immunity in bankruptcy cases for benefits provided by the VA and Department of Defense for disabled veterans or their surviving spouses.

By Joshua Axelrod

4 years ago

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