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Enhanced VA Mortgage Options Now Available For Veterans

Veterans with conventional home loans now have new options for refinancing to a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) guaranteed home loan.

Veterans Administration’s Forgotten Prosthetic Service Card

Some things that should not be forgotten often drop from the radar over time. To a great extent the Veterans Administration Prosthetic Service Card is one of those things. Once issued to eligible veterans with each prosthetic device, it has now become a rare find indeed.
VA’s Prosthetic Service Card, or PSC, is a card issued [...]

VA Eases Claims Process For Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)

New VA regulations will ease the process for Veterans seeking VA compensation for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

Length of Service Requirements For VA Benefits

Since September 1980, an individual who enlists in the military for the first time must have completed a minimum period of service to be eligible for certain VA benefits.
Generally speaking, the minimum period of service is either twenty-four months of continuous active duty or the entire period for which the individual was called or [...]

Adapting VA Home Modification Grants to Meet Your Needs

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Blue Water Veterans Sunk By Federal Appeals Court

Blue Water Veterans sunk by Federal Appeals Court. Did Congress make it easier or tougher for Blue Water Vets to establish service connection for an Agent Orange-related disease?

Guide To State Veterans Benefits

Lost in the State Veterans Benefits maze? Check out this interactive Guide to State Veterans Benefits at VetsFirst.

VA Issues Updated Veterans Benefits Handbook

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) recently published an updated edition of the Federal Benefits for Veterans and Dependents handbook.
The handbook is revised every year to reflect the most current VA benefits and health care programs and services, as well as the rates for certain benefits payments. The 2008 version of the handbook [...]

Vets Benefits Commission Finds Deep Seated Flaws In VA Claims Adjudication

The long anticipated report of the Veterans Disability Benefi ts Commission was recently released to Congress and the American people. The report is the culmination of a two-and-ahalf year comprehensive review of Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) programs, processes, regulations, and policies. In its 544-page report, the 13member commission, made up of distinguished retired military [...]

VFW Wants Movement on New G.I. Bill Proposal; National Commander Urges Members to Petition U.S. Senate

Type of Action: Letter to senator

June 12, 2007
WASHINGTON, June 12, 2007–The national commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S. is asking his entire membership to contact their U.S. senators and urge them to support S. 22, the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2007.
The bill, which was introduced in January by [...]

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