By Bob Brewin, Nextgov.com Updated: April 19, 2012 | 10:03 p.m. The Veterans Affairs Department faces a “staggering” backlog of 897,566 disability claims with more than 65 percent pending for more than 125 days, a problem compounded by an error rate of 16 percent, representatives of veterans’ services organizations told lawmakers on the House Veterans Affairs Committee [...]

By ANNE FLAHERTY and PAULINE JELINEK, Associated Press Writers Anne Flaherty And Pauline Jelinek, Associated Press Writers – Fri Jun 11, 1:52 am ET WASHINGTON – An Army investigation has found that potentially hundreds of remains at Arlington National Cemetery have been misidentified or misplaced, in a scandal marring the reputation of the nation’s pre-eminent burial ground for its [...]

By Oliver North Published May 29, 2010 FOXNews.com Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia This is the place that receives the most attention on Memorial Day – though it is but one of 141 national cemeteries in the United States and 24 others located on foreign soil. Many of our countrymen will observe this “last Monday in [...]

Bureaucrats live it up while taxpayers foot the bill Mar 2, 2010 By THE WASHINGTON TIMES Americans expect the nation to take care of our veterans, especially during war time when the needs of recently wounded warriors increase. But at the Department of Veterans Affairs, some bureaucrats are using their positions to enrich themselves. A report [...]

Veterans Find Getting Vocational Training Sometimes Means Fighting a New Battle Feb 26, 2010 By Wyatt Andrews (CBS)  Former Army medic Jeremy Smith was wounded and paralyzed in Afghanistan. Clearly qualified for both medical and pension benefits, Smith was surprised when a Veteran’s Affairs counselor told him he wasn’t disabled enough for vocational benefits. “How [...]

Weak economy adds to tally seeking government health care Dec 31, 2009 By Amanda Carpenter Leading Democrats like to hold up the Veterans Benefits Administration as an example of how well government can provide health care. But veterans who deal with the complex federal bureaucracy have invented an unhappy refrain to describe the VBA: “Deny, [...]