DAILYCALLER (Reagan Reese) - EXCLUSIVE: Trump Slashes Bureaucratic Backlog Keeping Veterans From Their Benefits
Modernize data management
WASHINGTONPOST (Craig Whitlock) - How The Post’s public-records lawsuit exposed GI Bill scams with for-profit trade schools
Journalists analyzed databases, scoured thousands of pages of documents and traveled to three states to illuminate a core finding of over $300 million in fraud.
STRIPES (Linda F. Hersey) - Democrats’ version of sweeping veterans benefits bill blocked in Senate | Stars and Stripes
This version of the Take Care of America’s Veterans Act replaces a contested funding measure with unspent dollars allocated to the Pentagon.
STRIPES (Linda F. Hersey) - Nation’s largest federal employee union campaigned against veterans benefits package | Stars and Stripes
The American Federation of Government Employees says the bill contains partisan measures that will send more veterans to the private health system.
STRIPES (Rose L. Thayer) - Army scales back legal services for soldiers in disability evaluation process | Stars and Stripes
The disability evaluation process determines whether soldiers can continue to serve or whether they should receive medical retirement benefits.
STRIPES (Linda F. Hersey) - Major veterans package edges closer to a House vote | Stars and Stripes
The Take Care of America’s Veterans Act bundles together more than 60 veterans bills, including the Major Richard Star Act.
STRIPES (Linda F. Hersey) - Long-serving transgender service members seek retirement benefits in court challenge | Stars and Stripes
The complaint says the Air Force unlawfully revoked the early retirement orders of the plaintiffs, who were serving in the Air Force and Space Force.
STRIPES (Linda F. Hersey) - House Democrats move to force a vote on Major Richard Star Act | Stars and Stripes
Rep. Mark Takano is pursuing a discharge petition, a parliamentary procedure used in rare circumstances to move a stalled bill out of committee.
STRIPES (Linda F. Hersey) - 2 high-profile veterans bills move toward a final House vote | Stars and Stripes
The bills increase benefits for severely injured veterans and stop the VA from removing a veteran’s gun rights without a court order.
STRIPES (Linda F. Hersey) - Ex-NFL player sentenced for his role in a scheme to defraud VA and Medicare | Stars and Stripes
Joel French was ordered to forfeit $17 million for his role in a scheme to bilk the VA and medicare of $200 million with falsified doctors’ orders.