Vets stranded when VA drops the ball

#Middlebury A small home-health service in New Hampshire had to stop taking care of its 15 veterans when the Department of Veterans Affairs stopped paying the bills. Unlike major corporations, ... Continue Reading →

VA adds benefits application in Spanish

#Middlebury The Department of Veterans Affairs now offers a Spanish version of the application to receive benefits. Hispanic Americans have been very much part of the U.S. military, ... Continue Reading →

Vets can get clinic reminders via cellphone

#Middlebury #Veterans If you’re a patient and you have a new cellphone number, you need to tell the Department of Veterans Affairs. It has a new system to remind patients about ... Continue Reading →

VA slashes backlog of claims appeals

#Middlebury #VeteransPost The Department of Veterans Affairs has announced a major reduction in the number of disability claim appeals that had piled up. This year it managed to clear ... Continue Reading →

VA proud of 2017 accomplishments

#Middlebury #VeteransPost For all the grousing so many of us do about the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), when you add it all up, there’s a lot it did last year. VA Secretary ... Continue Reading →

Veterans Post – Will bad employees still linger at VA?

#Middlebury #VeteransPost by Freddy Groves The Department of Veterans Affairs’ new authority to get rid of bad employees is getting a test in Memphis. An employee at the Memphis ... Continue Reading →

Veterans Post – Physician Ambassadors at VA

#Middlebury #Veterans by Freddy Groves The Department of Veterans Affairs has a new program: the Physician Ambassador Program, which pairs volunteer medical personnel with VA medical ... Continue Reading →

Veterans Post – Group offers real help for homeless vets

#MIDDLEBURY #VETERANS by Freddy Groves It’s not enough to say we have X number of homeless veterans on the street. Before there can be real solutions, we have to know why those ... Continue Reading →