VA Calls for Employees’ Full-Time Return to Offices The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has told eligible employees that they must return to work full time “at their respective duty stations (agency worksites).” The policy change complies with President Donald Trump’s “Return to In-Person Work” memorandum, issued on Jan. 20 and calling for “heads of…
Briefly: VA to End Remote Work Arrangements; Wheelchair Travel Advocate Stars in Super Bowl Commercial
The National Academies Report: Make ALS Livable in the Next Decade
Livability includes greater quality of life for people with ALS, as well as greater longevity.
A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine discusses how the health-care field and its professionals could most effectively support people living with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The consensus study report was introduced during a June 18 webinar. “At any one time, at least 30,000 people in the U.S. are living…
Briefly: Sen. Warren Concerned About VA Exams; Paralympics Watch Begins
Featuring Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Veterans Affairs, and the 2024 Paris Paralympic Games.
Warren: Some Contractors Providing Inadequate Medical Exams for Veterans Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has written to Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, to voice her concerns about “disturbing reports of inadequate and unprofessional treatment of Massachusetts veterans by private vendors during Department of Veterans Affairs compensation and pension examinations.” Warren said that while using…
VA to Expand Benefits Consideration for Service Members Not Honorably Discharged
The Department of Veterans Affairs encouraged previously declined former service members to reapply for benefits.
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is updating its regulations regarding which former service members qualify for VA benefits. In an April 25 news announcement, the VA said the changing regulations involve the “character of discharge determinations, expanding access to VA care and benefits for some former service members discharged under other-than-honorable conditions or by…