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VA announces 2024 Equity Action Plan, new actions to ensure that …
Using the Agency Equity Plan, VA will work urgently to improve outcomes and eliminate disparities in Veteran benefits and health care; increase access to VA services; enhance …
VA sets all-time records for care and benefits delivered to …
All-time record accomplishments for Veterans, their families, caregivers, and survivors in fiscal year 2023 include: Providing more world-class health care to Veterans: VA delivered more than 116 million health care appointments to Veterans, surpassing the previous all-time record by more than 3 million appointments.
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BREAKING: VA plans expansion of benefits for disability claims for conditions related to certain toxic exposures. VA announced today two major decisions related to presumptive conditions associated with Agent Orange and particulate matter exposures during military service in Southwest Asia.
To improve care for Veterans, VA to fund studies on new therapies …
The Department of Veterans Affairs issued a request for applications (RFA) for proposals from its network of VA researchers (in collaboration with academic institutions) to study the use of certain psychedelic compounds in treating posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression.
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Protecting yourself and others with vaccinations. Respiratory illness season is approaching. Vaccines can help protect from flu, RSV (Respiratory Syncytial Virus), COVID-19, and pneumococcal pneumonia. These vaccines are available free of …
VA notifies Veterans of compromised personal information
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of Management today announced a data breach involving the personal information of approximately 46,000 Veterans and actions taken by the department to prevent and …
VA calls for extension of Veteran foreclosure moratorium through …
Today, the Department of Veterans Affairs strongly encouraged mortgage servicers to extend the Veteran foreclosure moratorium — originally slated to expire on May 31 – through Dec. 31.
VA Releases Report on Nation’s Largest Analysis of Veteran Suicide
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) today released its findings from the nation’s most comprehensive analysis of Veteran suicide rates in the United States in which VA examined more than 55 million Veterans’ records from 1979 to 2014 from every state in the nation.