
At least 115 living veterans were declared dead in error over a nine-month period ending April 2015, each losing health benefits until the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs could be convinced that he or she was in fact, not dead.
by Michelle Moons24 Dec 2015, 12:58 PM PST0

Veterans lashed out against Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton for her comments about the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) scandal.
by Mary Chastain27 Oct 2015, 12:49 PM PST0

On Friday, Hillary Clinton, denying reality once again, claimed that the Veterans Affairs scandals plaguing the Department of Veterans Affairs have been blown out of proportion by Republicans who want the department to fail.
by William Bigelow25 Oct 2015, 5:22 PM PST0

Democratic presidential candidate former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton argued the VA scandal is not “as widespread as it has been made out to be” and Republicans “want it to fail, so then we can argue for privatization” in an
by Ian Hanchett23 Oct 2015, 7:51 PM PST0

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The chairman of a Senate governmental affairs panel blasted the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of Inspector General (OIG), charged with protecting and encouraging federal employees to come forward with allegations of personnel wrongdoing, for retaliating against whistleblowers.
by Edwin Mora22 Sep 2015, 1:27 PM PST0

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump stated of the VA, “we’re going to create a whole new system. We’re going to take the system apart,” “and if they’re not doing the job” vets would be reimbursed for outside care from private
by Ian Hanchett15 Sep 2015, 7:03 PM PST0

The Department of Veterans Affairs office Inspector General has released a report revealing that about 307,000 sick veterans have died while waiting for care on the VA’s eligibility waiting list. In fact, the report finds that many have been dead for more than four years.
by Warner Todd Huston2 Sep 2015, 8:53 PM PST0

The Veterans Administration, with a 20-year lease etched into stone, will shell out more than $68 million over 20 years for a Wilmington, North Carolina facility it will not own, renting it instead.
by William Bigelow14 Aug 2015, 12:10 PM PST0

A freshman Texas U.S. Representative took a vote this week to protect veterans and hold VA employees accountable. The move comes in the wake of VA scandals where veterans have received long delays in treatments or no treatment at all for their service related disabilities and injuries.
by Bob Price30 Jul 2015, 7:23 AM PST0

In the Palin Update radio program released Monday, host Kevin Scholla interviews 2016 Presidential candidate and American success story Donald Trump, who offers his admiration of Governor Palin, his take on the “amazingly dishonest” political media, taking on “weak, ineffective” politicians in both major political parties, the pathetic treatment of veterans, “nuclear climate change,” his run for the White House, and how he plans to make America great again.
by Michelle Moons27 Jul 2015, 12:57 PM PST0

Veterans Affairs facilities in West Los Angeles and Loma Linda are apparently unconcerned about wasting water despite the state’s severe drought.
by William Bigelow12 Jul 2015, 12:48 PM PST0

According to statistics from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), the number of veterans who have to wait a month or longer for services in VA hospitals has grown by nearly 50 percent over the last year. As of June, over seven percent of patients at VA hospitals had to wait a month or longer to receive medical care.
by Michael Lucchese23 Jun 2015, 12:04 PM PST0

The embattled Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) continues to receive congressional scrutiny over that government agency’s ongoing struggle to provide adequate and timely healthcare to U.S. military servicemen and servicewomen.
by Javier Manjarres21 Jun 2015, 6:29 PM PST0

New reports released by the federal government indicate that the suicide rate for women who have served in the military is six times higher than that of women who have not.
by Michael Lucchese10 Jun 2015, 7:27 AM PST0

It’s Accountability Theater, and we get a fresh performance every time scandals explode in the Obama Administration, because they know the public has a short attention span, and their faithful media has an even shorter one.
by John Hayward24 Apr 2015, 7:30 AM PST0

Given both the crisis still in progress at the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the controversy over NBC News’ Brian Williams getting in trouble for a phony story of taking fire in Iraq, this was not a good moment for a combo scandal in which the new VA Secretary, Robert McDonald, got caught making a false claim of serving with U.S. Special Forces.
by John Hayward24 Feb 2015, 11:18 AM PST0

The HBO documentary Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1 picked up the Oscar for Best Short-Subject Documentary at Sunday night’s 87th annual Academy Awards.
by Daniel Nussbaum22 Feb 2015, 7:16 PM PST0

This week, Los Angeles leaders formally committed themselves to ending veteran homelessness in L.A. by October of this year.
by Adelle Nazarian31 Jan 2015, 8:28 AM PST0