Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two survivors of veterans who died from military-related illnesses are challenging the Department of Veterans Affairs' practice of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Vietnam veteran Jerry King holds onto his wife, Pauline, as she lifts him into his wheel chair at their home in Anna, Illinois.

The Department of Veterans Affairs has fully launched its pilot, announced last year, in which it's distributing 1,000 iPads to family caregivers of veterans loaded with 10 specially-created apps.

The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to extend benefits through 2028 to veteran caregivers who faced removal from a VA program that provides them health care and compensation. The VA announced ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs has delayed its deadline for announcing changes to its family caregiver program, giving longtime participants who faced possible dismissal up to three more years of ...

Kelly M. Lee-Carroll falsely claimed she was unable to walk and recruited her sister and her son to help her unlawfully ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs has a very popular program that pays a stipend to those who care for post-9/11 veterans, often family members. In 2018, Congress revamped it to include Vietnam-era ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- A long-awaited plan to give caregivers of severely wounded Iraq and Afghanistan veterans some extra help was unveiled Wednesday by the Veterans Affairs Department with few specifics ...

Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., has been a strong advocate for expanding VA caregiver benefits to more generations of veterans. "When someone is injured in war, we say ‘We’re going to take care of them ...