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November 21, 2015

Triple dippers: 60,000 veterans collect disability benefits, Social Security, retirement pay

It's a rare triple play of government benefits.

November 21, 2015

Heiress who pushed for memorial to disabled veterans to speak at dedication this weekend

Lois Pope, heiress to the National Enquirer fortune, was a Broadway singer in the 1960s when she vowed to do something to help disabled veterans.

November 21, 2015

Missouri judge orders state to recognize same-sex marriages legally performed in other states

A judge struck down part of Missouri's gay marriage ban for the first time on Friday by ordering the state to recognize same-sex marriages legally performed in other states, saying state laws banning the unions single out gay couples "for no logical reason." The order means such couples will be eligible to sign up for a wide range of tax, health insurance, veterans and other benefits now afforded to opposite-sex married couples.

November 21, 2015

MOAA Works to Overturn Military 1% Pay-Raise Cap

A group of military officers will meet with representatives from other organizations and seek a united front in opposing a 1 percent cap on 2015 troop pay raises.

November 21, 2015

Shinseki, facing calls for ouster, set to deliver address on ending homelessness for veterans

The embattled Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki (shin-SEHK'-ee) is to address a homeless veterans group on Friday.

November 21, 2015

American Legion Appoints First Female Executive Director

For the first time in its nearly 100-year history The American Legion has a woman executive director, the Legion confirmed.

November 20, 2015

VA Candidates Cover a Wide Spectrum

Career military members and vets-turned-politicians are popular picks to head the Department of Veterans Affairs.,Veterans' advocates and other analysts have offered up names of military officers or veterans-turned-politicians to take over for former Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki, who resigned May 30.

November 20, 2015

GAO: Vet Wait Times in Private Care Not Known

A GAO official says the VA cannot say whether wait times for veterans going to private doctors or hospitals are any better or worse than those in VA care.

November 20, 2015

WWII Doolittle Raiders making final toast

Thousands of visitors streamed to the national Air Force museum on Saturday to pay a Veterans Day weekend tribute to the few surviving members of the Doolittle Raiders, airmen whose daring raid on Japan helped boost American morale during World War II, as they planned to make their ceremonial final toast together.

November 20, 2015

World War II veteran en route to Pearl Harbor ceremony booted from flight

A 90-year-old World War II veteran en route to a ceremony marking the 72nd anniversary of the attack at Pearl Harbor was booted from his flight to accommodate the weight of additional jet fuel needed for the trip.