Pvt Charles J Shutt Detachment VAVS

The nation’s largest veterans organization is “furious” over the omission from the final 2010 defense authorization bill of promised increases in retired pay for people whose disabilities cut short their military careers.Clarence Hill, national commander of the 2.5-million-member American Legion, said in a statement that the compromise version of the 2010 defense authorization bill approved by the House of Representatives “should be named the Unfinished Business Act of 2009.”

Participation is open to U.S. military Veterans with qualifying disabilities such as traumatic brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, orthopedic amputations, visual impairments, certain neurological conditions and other disabilities. Veterans with an inpatient or outpatient status with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and active duty military servicemen and women are eligible. More than 350 Veterans participated at the event last year.

Almost 1.5 million people in the United States will be diagnosed with cancer in 2009. For American women, breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths.

TRICARE and the National Cancer Institute urge women 40 and older to have a mammogram every one to two years. Women younger than 40, but with risk factors for breast cancer, should ask their health care provider when they should have a mammogram and how often. To make it easier for women to get mammograms, TRICARE beneficiaries in specific age and risk categories have no copayment for mammograms.

What do you do when you think a loved one or friend may be having difficulty readjusting to life on the home front following an overseas deployment? For TRICARE beneficiaries the answer to this, and many other behavioral health questions, is just a few mouse clicks away.

To expand burial capacity at the Massachusetts National Cemetery in Bourne, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has picked a Massachusetts firm a design contract to develop additional space for the cemetery.

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced today that it has provided certificates of eligibility to nearly 200,000 applicants for the new Post-9/11 GI Bill. Over 61,000 payments totaling over $50 million to schools and students have been issued since the August 1, 2009, implementation of the new program.

“Our top priority is providing our students and schools with accurate and timely benefit payments so Veterans can focus all of their energy on studies,” said Under Secretary for Benefits Patrick W. Dunne.