Tag: Veterans

Veterans Administration under fire for proposed disability filing rule

Veterans Administration under fire for proposed disability filing rule

Kevin Freking · January 11, 2014 5:19 pm

VA reports spike in suicides among youngest vets

VA reports spike in suicides among youngest vets

Kevin Freking · January 9, 2014 11:40 pm

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., recently defended the pension cut in an op-ed in USA Today, saying he stands behind "responsible reforms of military compensation." (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Disabled veterans to be exempted from federal pension cuts

Andrew Taylor · January 9, 2014 5:00 am

Disabled veterans to be exempted from pension cuts

Disabled veterans to be exempted from pension cuts

Andrew Taylor · January 8, 2014 10:34 pm

In this Monday, Dec. 16, 2013, photo, Army Staff Sgt. Oskar Zepeda poses for a photo at the entrance to a Digital Forensics Lab at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Seattle, where he is serving a one-year internship. Zepeda, who served nine tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, before being wounded, is part of a 17-member class of veterans deployed to ICE field offices throughout the country to use his newly acquired skills in computer forensics to help capture and prosecute child predators. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Wounded veterans work to put away child predators

Kevin Freking · January 6, 2014 3:05 pm

California congressmen want to repeal veterans’ pension cuts

Washington Examiner · January 4, 2014 5:00 am

Alleged Vandalism at Veterans Cemetery Causes Controversy

Jim Swift · January 1, 2014 3:12 pm

Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray, D-Wash., discusses the compromise spending plan during a television news interview on Capitol Hill on Dec. 18. The bill is designed to keep Congress from lurching from fiscal crisis to fiscal crisis and ease the harshest effects of the automatic budget cuts known as the sequester. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Patty Murray: ‘Technical error’ that cuts disabled veterans benefits will be fixed

Sean Lengell · December 18, 2013 5:00 am

A veteran who challenges an initial rating faces an average of more than three additional years to get a verdict from the Board of Veterans Appeals, according to agency reports.

Claims errors, long appeals still haunt disabled veterans

Mark Flatten · December 11, 2013 5:00 am

Documents show six top administrators of the Veterans Health Administration received performance bonuses in excess of $16,000 last year. (Examiner File)

Work shift delays Minnesota veterans benefits claims

Washington Examiner · December 10, 2013 5:00 am

U.S. Marine veteran Gary Staten poses on the deck outside his home, Thursday, Nov. 21, 2013, in Hebron, Ky. Staten credits staff at Easter Seals TriState for helping him find a job with FedEx just weeks after his recent military discharge and for his wife's temporary job. The nonprofit Easter Seals organization is in the midst of a new initiative to expand support networks for veterans, military service members and their families. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)

Easter Seals has long served disabled veterans

James Jay Carafano · December 9, 2013 5:00 am

Park Young, right, a former member of the Kuwol partisan unit, speaks about Merrill Newman, an elderly American tourist detained in North Korea, during an interview at the Kuwol partisan unit association office in Seoul, South Korea. (AP/Ahn Young-joon)

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US vet detained in North Korea oversaw guerrilla group

Foster Klug · December 4, 2013 5:00 am