Featured News
-
Do Service Dogs Help Treat PTSD? V.A. Still Doesn’t Know
July 17, 2019
Jasper Craven | NY Times
On a sunny October day in 2017, Lara Trump, the president’s daughter-in-law, held a meeting in the West Wing to promote an initiative that would pair shelter dogs needing homes with veterans wanting to act on the increasingly widespread notion that well-trained dogs can improve the lives of people suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental-health conditions.
-
New Law Increases VA Home Loan Limits, Funding Fees
July 16, 2019
Patricia Kime | Military.com
A law signed by President Donald Trump on June 25 to provide compensation to ill veterans who served on Navy ships in Vietnam also made several changes to Department of Veterans Affairs-backed home loans for all eligible veterans.
-
Unusual Nonprofit Partnership Creates a Path to Housing for Vets
July 15, 2019
Derrick Rhayn | NPQ
Partnerships are often lauded by nonprofits and funders as a way of maximizing impact, increasing capacity, and making progress on pressing social issues. While some partnerships achieve true impact, many are often surface-level collaborations that never address real transformational change.
- Topics
- Homelessness
- Mental Health
-
Department of Veterans Affairs’ new ‘smoke-free’ policy doesn’t apply to employees
July 12, 2019
Nikki Wentling | Stars and Stripes
WASHINGTON — The Department of Veterans Affairs announced its health care facilities will soon be “smoke-free,” though a smoking ban set to take effect Oct. 1 does not apply to employees, the agency clarified Friday.
While veterans, visitors, volunteers, contractors and vendors will be prohibited from smoking on VA grounds, employees will keep their smoking privileges because of a memorandum of understanding between the VA and the American Federation of Government Employees, a federal union that represents VA workers.
- Topics
- Legislation
- VA
-
Combat exposure affects veterans’ mental health in later life
July 12, 2019
Lee H | Healio
Among combat-exposed male veterans, trajectories for depression and anxiety decreased until age 60 years before increasing in later life, according to study results.
These findings, published in Psychology and Aging, suggest that combat exposure is a hidden variable for mental health in the aging population, according to the researchers.
- Topics
- Mental Health
-
Here’s why you’re paying less for military life insurance
July 11, 2019
Karen Jowers | Military Times
About 2.1 million service members are seeing a slight bump in their paycheck, as the monthly premiums for life insurance for themselves and their spouses have decreased, effective July 1.
For those with the maximum $400,000 coverage under the Servicemembers’ Group Life Insurance, or SGLI, the premium has decreased by $4 a month, from $29 to $25. Most service members have the maximum coverage.
- Topics
- Active Duty
- Benefits
- Family
- VA
-
Defense Department, VA Gear Up to Host Suicide Prevention Conference
July 10, 2019
Patricia Kime | Military.com
The Defense and Veterans Affairs Departments will team up in August to hold a conference on suicide prevention in Nashville.
The meeting, the first in two years, will bring together the suicide prevention offices of both departments and the military services, as well as subject-matter experts from academia, nonprofit groups and veterans and military support organizations, to address the ongoing battle against active-duty and veteran suicides.
-
SBA Offers $300K in Grants Aiding Service-Disabled Veteran Entrepreneurs
July 9, 2019
Rob Borkowski | Warwick Post
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Small Business Administration wants to give service-disabled veteran entrepreneurs a fighting chance, so they’ve set aside $300,000 so eligible organizations can prepare them.
-
Why Every Veteran Should Know What’s in Their Military Service Records
July 7, 2019
Sean Bigley | Clearance Jobs
If I had a dollar for every time I’ve heard a security clearance holder say, “I had no clue that was in my file,” I’d be a rich man. The context varies – human resources files, security databases, law enforcement records, etc. – but the surprise is rarely a good one. Common examples include an old disciplinary write-up, a long-forgotten security infraction, or a police report with highly unflattering details about the subject.
-
VA-Verizon Partnership Offers Unlimited Access to Department’s Video Telehealth Service
July 7, 2019
WASHINGTON — As a result of a partnership with Verizon, Veterans who are customers of the telecommunications company, as of June 27, will have unlimited access to the U.S. va logo300Department of Veteran Affairs’ (VA) VA Video Connect telehealth app.
Pages
