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Report: 60,000 veterans got triple benefits last year — legally

By Matthew Daly, Associated Press

Nearly 60,000 veterans were triple dippers last year, drawing a total of $3.5 billion in military retirement pay plus veterans and Social Security disability benefits at the same time, congressional auditors report. It's all legal.

U.S. dedicates memorial honoring disabled veterans

By Carey Reed

President Obama honored the nation's wounded servicemen and servicewomen during the unveiling of a disabled veterans memorial in Washington on Sunday.

VA settles complaints of three Phoenix whistleblowers

By Matthew Daly, Associated Press

The Veterans Affairs Department said Monday it has settled complaints filed by three employees who faced retaliation after filing whistleblower complaints about the troubled Phoenix VA hospital.

White House announces plan to train 50,000 people, including veterans, to install solar panels

By Josh Lederman, Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The U.S. is planning to train veterans to become solar panel installers in the next six years, the White House said Thursday.

Obama unveils plans to improve mental health care for veterans

By Jim Kuhnhenn, Associated Press

His standing with veterans damaged by scandal, President Barack Obama on Tuesday defended his administration's response to Veterans Affairs lapses that delayed health care for thousands of former service members, but conceded more needed to be done to regain their…

President Obama signs bill allowing new changes in veteran health care

By Matthew Daly, Darlene Superville, Associated Press

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — President Barack Obama says the government must ensure that the Veterans Affairs Department has the resources to keep up with the demands of troops returning from war.

House and Senate try to find compromise on VA health care plan

By Associated Press

A day after offering competing plans to improve veterans' health care, the chairmen of the House and Senate Veterans Affairs committees are again attempting to find a compromise.

Lawmakers seek lower price for bill on vets’ care

By Matthew Daly, Andrew Taylor, Associated Press

Stung by sticker shock, members of Congress are scrambling to lower the cost of a bill to fix veterans' health care amid a growing uproar over long waits for appointments and falsification of records to cover up the delays at…

Is GI Bill benefitting for-profit colleges instead of helping veterans?

By PBS News Hour

Veterans can receive the full cost of a college education under the GI Bill, but recently funds from the bill have flowed mostly to for-profit schools, even though veterans’ prospects are often not appreciably better after attending them. Aaron Glantz…

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VA says patient access to medical care improving

By Matthew Daly, Associated Press

The Department of Veterans Affairs says it has reached out to nearly 140,000 veterans in the past two months to get them off waiting lists and into clinics for medical appointments.