VA has inclusivity plan

#Middlebury #Veterans VETERANS POST by Freddy Groves The Department of Veterans Affairs now has a cultural transformation action plan with an 18-member task force created last year ... Continue Reading →

VA battles COVID-19

#Middlebury #Veterans VETERANS POST by Freddy Groves The Department of Veteran’s Affairs has been battling COVID-19 from the very beginning of the pandemic. The recently released ... Continue Reading →

Boot-camp for veteran-owned businesses

#Middlebury #Veterans Last summer, the Department of Veterans Affairs brought together 80 women veteran business owners for a six-month boot camp hosted by PenFed and the VA Office ... Continue Reading →

VA expands assistance to homeless veterans

#Middlebury #Veterans With prices soaring all around us, imagine how bad it must be in places that already had high costs when it came to rental housing. In an effort to help homeless ... Continue Reading →

New hires to process VA claims backlog

#Middlebury #Veterans The Department of Veterans Affairs has hired 2,000 claims processors to deal with the claims backlog. They’re going to be busy once they’re trained. As ... Continue Reading →

Annual suicide prevention report offers insights

#Middlebury #Veterans The 2021 National Veteran Suicide Prevention Annual Report shows a decrease in veteran suicides from 2018 and 2019 when compared with previous years. For example, ... Continue Reading →

VA emergency rooms prep for elderly vets

#Middlebury #Veterans Half of our 19.5 million veterans are over the age of 65, and they make up 45% of emergency room visits at Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals, according ... Continue Reading →

VA thieves never learn

#Middlebury #Veterans Criminals just can’t seem to help themselves when it comes to stealing from the Department of Veterans Affairs. What they haven’t figured out is that ... Continue Reading →

VA tells health staff they must get vaccine

#Middlebury #Veterans The Department of Veterans Affairs recently announced that they will require their frontline medical staff to get the COVID vaccine. Specifically, they listed ... Continue Reading →

VA grants help homeless veterans

#Middlebury #Veterans More than 260 nonprofit community programs across the country received portions of $418 million in grants for the Support Services for Veteran Families (SSVF) ... Continue Reading →