NEWS ALERT!!: UPDATE on POST 9/11 GI BILL RULES!! We get PAID!!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 25, 2009
Secretary Shinseki Orders Emergency Checks to Students Awaiting Education Benefits
Thousands of Checks to Alleviate Student Financial Burden
WASHINGTON – Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki announced the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has authorized checks for up to $3,000 to be given to students who have applied for educational benefits and [...]

Secretary Shinseki Moves to Simplify PTSD Compensation Rules

Thanks to Doc-Pardue for the scoop, Vietnam Doc still taking care of his charges!!
WASHINGTON (Aug. 24, 2009) – Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K..
Shinseki announced the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is taking
steps to assist Veterans seeking compensation for Post-Traumatic Stress
Disorder (PTSD).
“The hidden wounds of war are being addressed vigorously and
comprehensively by this administration as [...]

VA to face questions on Colonoscopies

Looks like the VA still hasn’t gotten it’s act together..
WASHINGTON — The questionable medical practices were first found at a Veterans Affairs medical center in Tennessee, then at VA facilities in Georgia and Florida.
Now, Veterans Affairs officials will face fresh questions about patient safety at a House hearing Tuesday after an internal review found continued [...]

Priority Group 8 Enrollment Relaxation Changes (VA Medical News)

(Info from VA.gov website)
In order to ensure the availability of quality and timely health care to veterans with service connected conditions, special authority based on military service, low income, and those with special health care needs, in January 2003 VA made the difficult decision to stop enrolling new Priority Group 8 (high income) veterans whose [...]

IAVA and VA News: VA to start accepting New Post 9/11 GI Bill Applications on May 1st 2009

Yeah!! I finally get to use my benefits.. Da-Chief will be a full times student after August 1st, I will be a 43 year old “FRESHMAN” in College, they better be ready for me!
Dedi–Dedi–Dedi-Dedication
Here you go, from the VA’s GI BILL Website:
Starting May 1, 2009, the Department of Veterans Affairs will begin accepting applications for [...]

Five Universities Partner with VA in Nursing Initiative

WASHINGTON — To provide compassionate, highly-trained nurses to serve the health care needs of the nation’s Veterans, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is establishing new partnerships with five of the country’s finest nursing schools.  With these new partnerships, the VA Nursing Academy will expand the number of collaborations between the department and nursing schools [...]

VA Welcoming Vets Home with New Web Site, Blog

WASHINGTON – The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has launched its new “Returning Veterans” Web site — www.oefoif.va.gov — to welcome home Veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts with a social, Veteran-centric Web site focusing on their needs and questions.
“VA is entering the world of Web 2.0, because that’s where this generation of Veterans [...]

VA unsure of extent of contamination

Updated: Friday, 27 Mar 2009, 8:19 AM EDT
* By BILL POOVEY, Associated Press Writer
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) – Thousands of military veterans across the South are waiting to find out if they were exposed to infectious diseases by government clinics that performed colonoscopies and other procedures with equipment that wasn’t properly sterilized.
Veterans Affairs spokeswoman Katie Roberts [...]

Veterans Administration “Can’s” Workers for Fraud when working claims.

The Department of Veterans Affairs has reassigned the director of its New York regional office after finding that employees there mis-dated hundreds of claims to make it appear they were being processed on time.
Without referring by name to the New York director, Patricia Amberg-Blyskal, VA spokeswoman Alison Aikele said last week that the director and [...]

VA Care for Women found lacking…

Study sees discrepancies in VA care for men, women
By KIMBERLY HEFLING – 1 day ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — Health care for female military veterans lags behind the care offered to male vets at many VA facilities, an internal agency report says, even as women are serving on front lines at historic levels.
There are [...]

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