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The Philadelphia VA announced a new incentive program earlier this month that rewards employees with cash and food for deciding cases quickly a move that some employees say will encourage staff to rush claims and

It took Navy Airman Apprentice Elena Giordano nine years to be granted service-connected disability compensation from the Department of Veterans Affairs for the post-traumatic stress disorder she suffered after multiple sexual assaults. Until recently, she

Suicide is a serious national epidemic. It is the 10th leading cause of death in the United States. However, for America’s veterans, it is an even more serious epidemic. Veteran’s make up 10 percent of

A veterans benefits specialist is visiting the Western Slope this week, meeting with veterans and their survivors to address a variety of issues. Barbara Martinez, who is based in the Denver Regional Veterans Benefits Office,

Post-9/11, the most prominent narratives about veterans are a study in extremes. Not all veterans are decorated heroes and not all veterans are victims. More than 200,000 warriors return to civilian life each year, and

  Doctors at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in Tomah, Wisconsin, hand out so many narcotic painkillers that some veterans have taken to calling the place Candy Land. They call the hospitals

A little-known fire response protocol has been in place and has worked for 65 years to protect one of the Wyoming Valleys most important landmarks and resources. The Wilkes-Barre Fire Department has lead responsibility on

The Department of Veterans Affairs recently issued a year-end summary report declaring 21 reasons why it is heading in the right direction for 2015. Their self-described roller-coaster year took a huge dip in May with

MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) – A city councilor wants a shuttered hospital in Smyrna to become a medical facility run by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Smyrna City Councilman Wade Lnenicka planned a rally Saturday

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) – The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded a contract for its long-promised new medical clinic in Savannah to Johnson Development of Birmingham, Ala., which will build and manage the expanded

A U.S. Army vet who found out he had terminal cancer after he fought the Veterans Affairs Department in Georgia for more than a year to get a cancer check-up has died. Norman Spiveys delayed-treatment