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  • Texas veterans face extraordinary claim delays

    Nov 12th, 2009 - Reuters

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Texas veterans must wait "extraordinary amounts of time" to get the federal benefits they earned, which costs them and the state economy $37 million a month...

  • Veterans Day highlights new efforts to help homeless vets

    Nov 11th, 2009 - The Christian Science Monitor

    As the nation pauses for Veterans Day, the Obama administration is trying to accelerate support for military veterans who are homeless or jobless. An estimated 131,000...

  • 'On-Pump' Heart Surgery Gets High Marks

    Nov 4th, 2009 - WebMD

    Nov. 4, 2009 -- Coronary artery bypass surgery performed on a beating heartwithout the aid of a heart- lung machine proved no more effective thantraditional bypass surgery...

  • Stimulus by $250 check

    Oct 17th, 2009 - Los Angeles Times

    As part of the $787-billion economic stimulus package enacted in February, Washington sent a $250 check to every adult on Social Security.every adult on Social Security...

  • Navajo Nation mourns passing of Code Talker

    Oct 14th, 2009 - kansascity

    Willard Varnell Oliver, a member of the Navajo Code Talkers who confounded the Japanese during World War II by transmitting messages in their native language, died Wednesday...

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Veterans Administration videos from YouTube:

  • Gen. Shinseki as Secretary of Veterans Affairs6:56

    Gen. Shinseki as Secretary of Veterans Affairs

    President-elect Barack Obama announced today that General Eric Shinseki will be his nominee for Secretary of Veterans Affairs. General Shinseki is a former Army Chief of Staff and 38-year Army veteran who served two combat tours in Vietnam ...
  • Veterans Administration treats our soldiers like trash.1:56

    Veterans Administration treats our soldiers like trash.

    Veterans Administration treats our soldiers like trash, making them have to fight for disability benefits and medical care. This is nothing new, they've been doing this since Vietnam, but it is still sickening to see.
  • Veterans' Affairs Intro2:25

    Veterans' Affairs Intro

    *Please subscribe and spread the word* This documentary is about veterans and the various issues that they face when they return from the war. The documentary will focus on the problems that veterans endure when they return from one war only to face a war with bureaucracy ...
  • Remembrance Day 20093:15

    Remembrance Day 2009

    This video pays tribute and commemorates the sacrifices of men and women who gave selflessly of themselves so that we might enjoy the freedoms we do today. Freedoms that our Canadian Forces still vigorously strive to uphold to this day ...
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Veterans Administration from WikiPedia:

The United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is a government-run military veteran benefit system with Cabinet-level status. It is responsible for administering programs of veterans’ benefits for veterans, their families, and survivors.

The benefits provided include disability compensation, pension, education, home loans, life insurance, vocational rehabilitation, survivors’ benefits, medical benefits and burial benefits. It is administered by the United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs.

It was formerly called the Veterans Administration, also called the VA, which was established 21 July 1930, to consolidate and coordinate government activities affecting war veterans. The VA incorporated the functions of the former U.S. Veterans' Bureau, the Bureau of Pensions of the Interior Department and the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.

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