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A double amputee who served in Iraq is pushing lawmakers to end the 'wounded veterans tax'

Federal policy prevents around 50,000 injured veterans from receiving both their full retirement pay and disability compensation.

By Melanie Zanona
May 26, 2025

A double amputee who served in Iraq is pushing lawmakers to end the 'wounded veterans tax'

Federal policy prevents around 50,000 injured veterans from receiving both their full retirement pay and disability compensation.

www.nbcnews.com

Army veteran Dan Nevins traveled to the U.S. Capitol on May 21, 2025, to push for legislation that would ensure veterans are able to receive their full retirement pay and disability compensation.​

 

[blackbull1970]

Veterans receiving disability payments might have been underpaid, IG finds

The IG found errors in an automatic calculator that may have been used as far back as 2017 to determine veterans monthly disability checks.

PATTY NIEBERG
MAY 30, 2025

Veterans receiving disability payments might have been underpaid, IG finds

A federal watchdog found errors in an automatic calculator that may have been used as far back as 2017 to determine veterans' benefits.

taskandpurpose.com

 

[blackbull1970]

Veterans fume after VA partially blames them for overpayments it claws back

The VA said veterans who fail to report eligibility changes are part of the problem. But these veterans said they did notify the VA, and it continued overpaying them anyway.

By Melissa Chan
June 1, 2025

Veterans fume after VA partially blames them for overpayments it claws back

The VA said veterans who fail to report eligibility changes are part of the problem. But these veterans said they did notify the VA, and it continued overpaying them anyway.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[SamSneed]

I just bumped my migraines to 50%

Then I told the nurse my dick don’t work for that extra 130

Ima sell dick pills at work lol

100% rating now

 

[blackbull1970]

Tricking Veterans: Using Suicide and Mental Health Struggles as a Guise for Privatizing the VA

Three pieces of legislation are gaining momentum, each crafted to systematically dismantle VA-delivered care under the guise of sympathy for veteran suicide and mental health struggles. These bills could deliver the decisive blow in a long-standing campaign by proponents determined to privatize VA health care, collapsing the system by pulling funding it needs to care for veterans.

Russell Lemle
June 10, 2025

Tricking Veterans: Using Suicide and Mental Health Struggles as a Guise for Privatizing the VA | Military.com

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A demonstrator holds a sign at a Unite for Veterans rally, Friday, June 6, 2025, on the National Mall in Washington.​

 

[blackbull1970]

VA Announces $42-Million Boost To Veterans

Last year, as many as 32,882 veterans were experiencing homelessness in the U.S., according to VA data. That is about 5 percent of the entire U.S. homeless population, showing that veterans are significantly overrepresented compared to other categories.

By Giulia Carbonaro
June 12, 2025

VA announces $42-million boost to veterans

The VA has announced new funding for a program trying to help veterans facing or at risk of homelessness.

www.newsweek.com

Trump's VA cut a program that's saving vets' homes. Even Republicans have questions

Last month, out of fear of the potential cost, the VA abruptly did away with this safety net. It was the latest development in a VA mortgage saga that has whiplashed veterans between various enacted and cancelled programs and left thousands in fear of losing their homes. There are about 80,000 vets in the U.S. behind on their mortgages and heading toward foreclosure, according to data from ICE Mortgage Technology.

By Chris Arnold, Quil Lawrence
JUNE 19, 2025

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/19/nx-s1-5400980/va-loans-veterans-mortgage-relief-republicans

Navy veteran Matthew Kelly's home in San Antonio, Texas. Kelly was left stranded when the VA abruptly ended a mortgage program that's been helping save thousands of vets homes.​

 

[blackbull1970]

VA hospitals remove politics and marital status from guidelines protecting patients from discrimination

Under federal law, eligible veterans must be given hospital care and services, and the revised VA hospital rules still instruct medical staff that they cannot discriminate against veterans on the basis of race, color, religion and sex. But language within VA hospital bylaws requiring healthcare professionals to care for veterans regardless of their politics and marital status has been explicitly eliminated from these bylaws, raising questions about whether individual workers could now be free to decline to care for patients based on personal characteristics not expressly protected by federal law.

Aaron Glantz
18 Jun 2025

VA hospitals remove politics and marital status from guidelines protecting patients from discrimination

Department of Veterans Affairs says the changes come in response to a Trump executive order ‘defending women’

www.theguardian.com

 

[blackbull1970]

Veterans Affairs dramatically scales back layoffs to less than half of initial plan

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has abandoned plans to cut more than 80,000 employees, scaling back that number to just under 30,000 after a massive outcry from veterans, advocate groups and lawmakers and an exodus of individuals from the agency.

BY ELLEN MITCHELL
07/07/25

Veterans Affairs dramatically scales back layoffs to less than half of initial plan

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has abandoned plans to cut more than 80,000 employees, scaling back that number to just under 30,000 after a massive outcry from veterans, advocate groups an…

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[blackbull1970]

Bill would let military retirees and fully disabled veterans keep contributing to military retirement accounts

By LINDA F. HERSEY
STARS AND STRIPES
August 26, 2025

Bill would let military retirees and fully disabled veterans keep contributing to military retirement accounts

Legislation introduced by Rep. Jen Kiggans, a former Navy pilot, would allow retiring service members to keep contributing to Thrift Savings Plans.

www.stripes.com

Service members retiring from the military will for the first time be allowed to keep contributing to their military-sponsored retirement accounts — known as Thrift Savings Plans — under legislation introduced by Rep. Jen Kiggans, R-Va., a former Navy pilot.

The Financial Opportunities for Retirees and Warriors Advancing Retirement Development — or FORWARD Act — also would let veterans who are 100% disabled send a portion of their monthly benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs to Thrift Savings Plans that they opened during military service, according to the bill.

Under the law now, veterans can keep their Thrift Savings Plans, also known as TSP accounts, after they leave the military. But they cannot continue putting aside a portion of their income into the retirement account…

 

[blackbull1970]

VA move to pay nearly $2 billion for private health providers inflames partisan debate over ‘privatizing’ veterans’ care

By Brian Todd
August 28, 2025

https://www.cnn.com/politics/va-private-health-care-move

US VA Redirects $2 Billion to Private Healthcare, Sparking Political Debate | Ukraine news - #Mezha

The US Department of Veterans Affairs redirected nearly $2 billion to private healthcare providers, sparking political debate over veteran care quality and privatization concerns.

mezha.net

US VA Redirects $2 Billion to Private Healthcare, Sparking Political Debate
The Department of Veterans Affairs in Washington, D.C., pictured on June 21, 2013. Charles Dharapak/AP/File

As stated by CNN

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs told CNN that nearly $2 billion from the VA health care system’s budget was reallocated to pay for the services of private medical providers. This redirection accounts for about 5% of the overall budget designated for private care of veterans.

According to a source on Capitol Hill, this is the largest step in years toward engaging the private sector. It was carried out without an official request for congressional approval, as is usually done by previous administrations, including during the first term of the Trump administration…

 

[BlackGoku]

VA move to pay nearly $2 billion for private health providers inflames partisan debate over ‘privatizing’ veterans’ care

By Brian Todd
August 28, 2025

https://www.cnn.com/politics/va-private-health-care-move

US VA Redirects $2 Billion to Private Healthcare, Sparking Political Debate | Ukraine news - #Mezha

The US Department of Veterans Affairs redirected nearly $2 billion to private healthcare providers, sparking political debate over veteran care quality and privatization concerns.

mezha.net

US VA Redirects $2 Billion to Private Healthcare, Sparking Political Debate
The Department of Veterans Affairs in Washington, D.C., pictured on June 21, 2013. Charles Dharapak/AP/File

As stated by CNN

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs told CNN that nearly $2 billion from the VA health care system’s budget was reallocated to pay for the services of private medical providers. This redirection accounts for about 5% of the overall budget designated for private care of veterans.

According to a source on Capitol Hill, this is the largest step in years toward engaging the private sector. It was carried out without an official request for congressional approval, as is usually done by previous administrations, including during the first term of the Trump administration…

Absolutely disagree with this...anytime shareholders control something that should be a right, you run into problems