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Latest "veterans affairs department" stories
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Here’s the VA’s long, slow fix to the GI Bill cash crunch
After leaving thousands of student vets in the lurch, the VA now has a plan to resolve the problem -- by 2020.
By Natalie Gross
Congress blasts VA on GI Bill: ‘You can’t simply change the law’
Lawmakers at a Capitol Hill hearing Thursday questioned whether the Veterans Affairs Department has the authority to change a major deadline for implementing a portion of the Forever GI Bill — and seemingly act as if the original one, mandated by law, never existed.
By Natalie Gross
VA delays Forever GI Bill housing stipend fix. Again.
After blowing through the initial deadline to bring its GI Bill housing stipends in line with the Forever GI Bill law, Veterans Affairs Department officials said Wednesday that they will not be able to implement the fix until December 2019.
By Natalie Gross