Vets can get clinic reminders via cellphone

#Middlebury #Veterans If you’re a patient and you have a new cellphone number, you need to tell the Department of Veterans Affairs. It has a new system to remind patients about ... Continue Reading →

VA links with National Cancer Institute

#Middlebury #VeteransPost A recent move by the Department of Veterans Affairs will allow seriously ill veterans to access a wider range of cancer treatments. The VA has just hooked ... Continue Reading →

ChooseVA wants you

#Middlebury Coming to a billboard near you: ChooseVA. The Department of Veterans Affairs has just started a campaign to persuade veterans to make use of all the services and benefits ... Continue Reading →

Vets’ suicide rate is unchanged

#Middlebury #Veterans The newly released National Suicide Data Report shows the number of veterans who commit suicide is unchanged. The report covers the years 2005 to 2015, which ... Continue Reading →

Scammers nabbed by the VAOIG

#Middlebury #VeteransPost Quite often thieves are not that bright. Or maybe they have a sense of entitlement and assume they won’t get caught, or that they’re somehow deserving. ... Continue Reading →

Vets benefit from protections for home loans

#Middelbury #Veterans One of our veterans’ benefits is help with buying a home. The Department of Veterans Affairs has a new policy that protects veterans from predatory lenders ... Continue Reading →

VA slashes backlog of claims appeals

#Middlebury #VeteransPost The Department of Veterans Affairs has announced a major reduction in the number of disability claim appeals that had piled up. This year it managed to clear ... Continue Reading →

Agencies take steps to decrease veterans’ suicide risk

#Middlebury #VeteransPost The number is almost as bad as it used to be: 20 veterans commit suicide each day, down from a previous 22. That number still is much too high. True to his ... Continue Reading →

Stand Downs for 2018 begin

#Middlebury #VetsPost Stand Down season has begun, and whether you’re on the side of needing services or providing help to homeless veterans, the information is out there and ... Continue Reading →

VA loses $13 million to parking-lot fraud

#Middlebury #VeteransPost After a 15-year scam, the owner/operator of a parking lot company was accused of defrauding the Department of Veterans Affairs of more than $13 million. The ... Continue Reading →