Veterans Disability Info Blog

Medicare fraud involving care provided to veterans is rampant. Since late 2019, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Department of Veterans Affairs have collaborated to stop fraud by exchanging Medicare sanctions data. Though the initiative has helped prevent some bad providers from participating in federal healthcare […]

Veteran victims of military rape achieved a huge win Thursday in a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that a statute of limitations will not protect military members charged with rape. The unanimous ruling reinstated the military rape convictions of Lt. Col. Michael Briggs and two other Air Force members, Master Sgt. […]

The Inspector General for the Department of Veterans Affairs is currently investigating claims that Robert Wilkie tried to discredit Andrea Goldstein, a Navy veteran and congressional staffer, who reported she was sexually assaulted at a VA facility.  The VA Secretary allegedly sought “damaging information” about Goldstein after she reported the […]

Rep. Jack Bergman (R-Michigan) recently asked the Government Accountability Office (“GAO” – the audit, evaluation, and investigative arm of Congress) to investigate whether the health of disabled veterans is improving with VA care. In January 2020, GAO published its findings, stating that “more than half of the veterans receiving disability […]

Last January, the Massachusetts Legislature’s Cannabis Control Commission discussed a bill introduced by Rep. Michael Soter to expand access to medical marijuana for veterans in the Bay state. On a federal level, Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) and Rep. W. Gregory Steube, (R-FL) have introduced two separate bills with similar proposals.  […]

Our country spent $89 billion dollars on contractors in Afghanistan for over eight years. However, some of those funds have not been used for their intended purpose. Devastated war zones like some areas of Afghanistan and Iraq have been fertile terrain for corrupt contractors to emerge. Servicemen and women who […]

The new year has brought some relief for Vietnam veterans. Effective on January 1, 2020, the Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act of 2019 provides that veterans who were exposed to Agent Orange while serving on ships in the vicinity of Vietnam or working on the storage or testing of […]

Have you heard of “Rent-A-Vet” schemes? Corrupt companies lie and say a disabled veteran is a majority owner and active manager of their small business to win service-disabled veteran-owned small business (“SDVOSB”) contracts. In doing so, they steal millions of federal contract dollars set aside specifically for hard-working service-disabled veterans. […]

Hundreds of thousands of disabled veterans have had to make an agonizing decision if they fell into serious financial difficulties. For the past 14 years, such veterans considering bankruptcy protection had to decide whether to use their monthly disability payment toward the settlement or keep spiraling downward financially since these […]

There is more information regarding the investigation into the deaths from insulin overdoses of at least 11 veterans at the Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Center in Clarksburg, West Virginia, four hours from Washington, D.C. Authorities have identified a “person of interest” in the investigation, although she has not been […]