First Look at the President’s Budget for Fiscal 2012
VetsFirst reviews the President’s budget request for the VA for fiscal 2012 and how it will impact vets.
Making Home Accessible
The VA’s Home Improvements and Structural Alternations (HISA) program provides for the improvements and structural alterations that veterans need to allow them access to their homes.
A Job is More Than a Paycheck
The VA's Work-Study program offers many participants personal fulfillment and the tools to reach their goals.
Urge Your Representative to Vote for HR 5953 to Protect the Rights of Injured and Amputee Veterans
We need you to tell your Representative to pass a landmark bill that will help injured and amputee veterans across the nation.
VetsFirst Victory: Increases to the Veterans’ Mortgage Life Insurance Program Now Law
VetsFirst’s advocacy has contributed to the passage of legislation that will increase the coverage limits available under the Veterans’ Mortgage Life Insurance program. This legislation includes important increases to the VMLI program to help ensure that the families and dependents of qualifying veterans with disabilities will be able to keep their homes in the event of the veteran’s death.
New Agent Orange Presumptives: The Price for the Cost Has Already Been Paid
VetsFirst wants you to know that the VA has added three diseases to the list of those that are presumptively related to Agent Orange exposure. VetsFirst supports the VA in this decision and believes that future decisions must also be based on science, without additional consideration for the monetary cost.
Prohibition on the Collection of Copayments for Catastrophically Disabled Veterans Being Implemented
VetsFirst wants you to know that the VA has released a fact sheet providing guidance on the implementation of the recently passed prohibition on the collection of copayments from veterans who are catastrophically disabled.
United Spinal Association/VetsFirst and Other Veterans Organizations Win Victory For Vietnam Vets Suffering From Agent Orange Diseases
United Spinal Association/VetsFirst and other veterans organizations scored a victory yesterday for Vietnam veterans suffering from diseases associated with Agent Orange exposure, when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit instructed the VA to issue within 30 days new rules for paying disability benefits to Vietnam veterans stricken with ischemic heart disease, Parkinson's disease, or B-cell leukemias.
VA Funding Legislation Likely to be Considered by Congress this Week
This week, the U.S. House of Representatives will likely consider the fiscal year 2011 funding for the VA. VetsFirst, along with other veterans service organizations, supported advance appropriations for the Department of Veterans Affairs.
New VA Rule Aims to Simplify the Evidence Needed to Prove a VA Benefits PTSD Claim
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has published a new rule that will change the type of evidence that certain veterans will need to provide to the VA to establish a claim for VA benefits due to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).