VA Press Releases

The number of Veterans homeless on a typical night dropped 18 percent as the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) entered the second year of its campaign to eliminate homelessness among Veterans within five years.

The Department of Veterans Affairs joins with the nation to observe Women's History Month in March by recognizing and honoring women Veterans.

The Department of Veterans Affairs announced today an aggressive new initiative to solicit private-sector input on a proposed 'fast track' Veterans' claims process for service-connected presumptive illnesses due to Agent Orange exposure during the Vietnam War.

On Wednesday, March 31, Olympic Gold Medalist and World Champion Alpine skier Bode Miller and Olympian Casey Puckett will join Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs L. Tammy Duckworth at the National Disabled Veterans Winter Sports Clinic in Snowmass Village, Colo. The Clinic, in its 24th year, teaches adaptive Alpine and Nordic skiing to more than 400 disabled Veterans annually.

Today, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki announced that the department's Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses Task Force has nearly completed a comprehensive report that will redefine how VA addresses the pain and suffering of ill Veterans who deployed during the Gulf War in 1990 and 1991.

The Department of Veterans Affairs announced the award of two contracts totaling $41.5 million to create a 'polytrauma center' that cares for the most severely injured Veterans and to improve the existing wards at the Audie L. Murphy VA Medical Center.