White House Blog, January 31, 2014 - This week, VA, DOD, and the Department of Education released an online feedback tool designed to give military and veteran education beneficiaries the power to report negative experiences with the education institutions and training programs they attend as beneficiaries of the Post-9/11 GI Bill and military tuition assistance programs. … [Read more...]
VA Offers $600 Million in Funding to Support Services for Homeless Veteran Families
WASHINGTON, White House Office of Communications (January 14, 2014) - The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has announced the availability of up to approximately $600 million in grants for non-profit organizations and consumer cooperatives that serve very low-income Veteran families occupying permanent housing through the Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF) … [Read more...]
Tuition Assistance Availability Temporarily Expanded
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va., December 18, 2013 (NNS) - The Center for Personal and Professional Development (CPPD) is temporarily expanding the availability of tuition assistance (TA) for Sailors beginning Dec. 17. CPPD's Virtual Education Center (VEC) will start authorizing command-approved TA requests for classes that have a start date in the second quarter of FY-14, which ends … [Read more...]
VA Highlights Progress on Claims Backlog
WASHINGTON (December 11, 2013) - At a hearing today before the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Under Secretary for Benefits, Allison A. Hickey, outlined progress made by the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) in reducing the backlog of Veterans’ disability compensation and pension claims by 36 percent since March … [Read more...]
New Guidelines for Submission of Medical Records to Veterans Affairs
FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md., December 05, 2013 - The Bureau of Medicine and Surgery has established the Navy Medicine Records Activity collect and review all service treatment records of separating personnel per MARADMIN 637/13 released Nov. 29. The Navy Medicine Records Activity ensures all service treatment records are complete prior to being sent to the Veterans Affairs … [Read more...]