Staff Sgt. Johnny “Joey” Jones, who medically retired in 2012 after losing both of his legs in combat, said he felt he had more to give to the service.
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The bill includes $450 billion for the VA, a 3% increase from the current fiscal year but less than the Trump administration requested.
Roughly 78% of VA medical centers earned four or five star ratings from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services this year.
Civilians have received benefits for work at the Nevada test site, but Cold War-era regulations still do not allow veterans to prove they were there, too.
Pests and crime threaten VA's efforts to expand housing for homeless veterans at its sprawling west Los Angeles campus.
He was sentenced to 16 years in prison for a yearslong plot that cost Medicare and VA nearly $200 million.
The proposal would allow Tricare beneficiaries and VA patients to pay the lowest government-negotiated price for prescription drugs.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said he supports the Richard Star Act to give medically retired veterans full compensation.
The VA is closing underperforming clinics and addressing issues at troubled facilities, VA Secretary Doug Collins says.
The VA provides disability compensation for birth defects to the children of women Vietnam veterans, but not to the children of men who served in the war.