On Dec. 19, during the end-of-the-year bill signing extravaganza, Gov. Kathy Hochul signed state Sen. Joseph P. Addabbo Jr.'s landmark bill that gives ...
The original Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act of 2014 (also the Choice Act) primarily focused on healthcare access and VA accountability, but it also included provisions for educational ...
As partisanship continues to dominate Washington, a bill that quietly passed out of the House Veterans Affairs Committee has given leaders in both parties the opportunity to cross the aisle and ...
Too many of America’s disabled veterans continue to struggle to access the VA disability benefits they’ve earned. The consequences are stark: 33,000 veterans are homeless, and an average of 17 die by ...
A bill in Congress would significantly increase the amount of disability compensation awarded to veterans with catastrophic injuries and survivors, but lawmakers are sparring over how to cover its ...
The California Legislature couldn’t adjourn without a bit of a last-minute kerfuffle, this time over a bill dealing with veterans‘ benefits. Editor’s note: Sacramento Snapshot is a weekly series ...
Senate Democrats agreed to support a Republican effort to expand veterans' access to private doctors through the Department of Veterans Affairs on the condition that a key provision will expire in ...