Mon, Oct 6, 2025:
Military veterans are swamping the U.S. government with dubious disability claims…. Taxpayers will spend roughly $193 billion this year for the Department of Veterans Affairs to compensate about 6.9 million disabled veterans on the presumption that their ability to work is impaired. VA officials say most veterans’ disability claims are legitimate. Yet The Post found that millions of the claims are for minor or treatable afflictions that rarely hinder employment, such as hair loss, jock itch and toenail fungus. About 556,000 veterans receive disability benefits for eczema, 332,000 for hemorrhoids, 110,000 for benign skin growths, 81,000 for acne and 74,000 for varicose veins, the most recently available figures from VA show. Individual payouts for such mundane conditions vary, but collectively they cost billions of dollars a year. – WP investigation
Thurs, Aug 14, 2025:
Veterans may be denied food stamps under Trump’s new tax law – The Hill
Fri, Aug 8, 2025:
Veterans’ Care at Risk Under Trump as Hundreds of Doctors and Nurses Reject Working at VA Hospitals. Amid concerns about the stability of the agency, records show nearly 40% of the doctors offered jobs at the VA from January through March of this year turned them down — quadruple the rate of rejections for the same period a year earlier. – ProPublica
Tues, May 27, 2025:
At Veterans Affairs, plan for sweeping cuts tanks morale. The government’s second-largest agency, serving some of America’s most vulnerable citizens, is set to lose 83,000 employees under Trump administration cutbacks. – WP
Wed, March 5, 2025:
Trump admin. to cut 80,000 employees from Veterans Affairs, according to internal memo – AP
Wed, Feb 26, 2025:
VA pauses billions in cuts lauded by Musk as lawmakers, veterans decry loss of critical care – AP
Tues, Feb 25, 2025:
Trump and Musk have fired nearly 6000 veterans – House Approps Dems
Thurs, Feb 20, 2025:
The private GOP panic over the slash-and-burn DOGE firings – POLITICO
“…lawmakers especially concerned about the dismissal of military veterans working in federal agencies as well as USDA employees handling the growing bird flu outbreak affecting poultry and dairy farms.”