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Supreme Court hears arguments on veterans benefits appeals rules

The case involves how appeals panels must review denials in veteran disability cases.

Plans for multiple VA medical clinics remain stalled despite funding

More than $670 million set aside for new VA outpatient clinics in 12 states is still waiting for final plans from the White House and Congress.

Senator seeks to overhaul VA suicide prevention algorithm favoring men

Women veteran suicide rates jumped 24% from 2020 to 2021, but some say prevention should focus on men because their rates remain considerably higher.

Here’s what veterans will get for a cost-of-living increase next year

The boost in benefits payments is the smallest since 2020, before the COVID-19 pandemic.

Opinion

Veterans health records need progress, not congressional sabotage

The overly cautious delays of the VA's new electronic health records system must end, AMVETS National Executive Director Joe Chenelly writes in this op-ed.

Vet the Vote recruits nearly 160,000 veterans as election workers

About one out of every 10 election workers in November will be a veteran or a family member of a veteran, according to the nonprofit We the Veterans.

Here are all the veterans running for Congress in 2024

More than 180 candidates with military backgrounds are vying for seats in the House and Senate.

Fewer vets will be on the November ballot for Congress this year

Of the 75 congressional candidates this cycle with a combat zone deployment, 62 of them served in Iraq, Afghanistan or both.

Months after Biden’s promise to pardon LGBTQ vets, only 8 have applied

Advocates say the confines are too narrow and the process too cumbersome, dashing hopes that the president’s act of clemency would erase decades of stigma.

VA unveils national over-the-phone emergency care option for veterans

Of the more than 61,000 callers so far this year, about 59% had medical questions resolved without having to travel to an urgent care clinic or hospital.