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.

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).

VetsFirst believes that the 120-day filing period to appeal a Board of Veterans’ Appeals decision should not be used to deny veterans their appeal rights if their failure to meet the deadline is a result of a disability. An upcoming U.S. Supreme Court case will now decide whether a veteran’s notice of appeal can be late if there is sufficient reason.

Your spouse deserves better. Both the VA and the Congress need to take a closer look at survivor benefits for totally disabled veterans

A major priority for VetsFirst is to continue to improve access to health care for veterans with disabilities including evolving the VA's system of long-term care to one that is more focused on community supports, funded by the VA.

Have you ever given Veterans’ Mortgage Life Insurance any thought? It's a high avoidance topic but one that can be very important to disabled vets and their spouses.

Our own Terry Moakley on his beginnings as a disabled veteran and "quadriplegic work-in-progress" searching for answers and how the VA's Adapted Housing Grant helped get him started.

On January 20, VetsFirst participated in the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs Roundtable on Veterans Service Organization Priorities for 2010. During the roundtable, VetsFirst had the opportunity to present our current public policy priorities.