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  • Tricare coverage available for some ‘gray area’ retirees

    Tricare Retired Reserve, a new program being launched in the fall, will allow certain "gray area" retired National Guard and Reserve personnel, who are not yet age 60, the opportunity to purchase Tricare health coverage. Passage of the National Defense Authorization Act for 2010 provided retired

  • Fact sheet outlines new rule for PTSD claims

    The Veterans Affairs Department has posted a fact sheet including questions and answers about the new rule governing post-traumatic stress disorder claims. This new rule, to be published in the Federal Register, relaxes the evidence requirement of certain PTSD stressor claims by veterans. The fact

  • VA eases claims process for veterans with PTSD

    The Veterans Affairs Department will publish a final regulation July 13 intended to ease the claims process and improve access to health care for veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder, VA officials announced July 12. "This nation has a solemn obligation to the men and women who have honorably

  • VA helping build women veterans communities, networks

    The Department of Veterans Affairs opened registration on July 8 for a women veterans forum that will address the quality of VA health care, the provision of benefits for women, and ways for VA to continue improving access to the care and benefits for women veterans."The VA forum will bring

  • Be prepared for hurricane season

    Hurricane season is under way, and being prepared is the best way to keep you and your family safe in the event of a natural disaster. Even if you are not one of the more than 35 million people who live in regions most affected by hurricanes, being informed of and prepared for what you should do in

  • Online program helps overseas retirees vote absentee

    The Defense Department has launched an Internet-based program to help retirees and other Americans living overseas vote more easily in November's elections. The new, online voting assistant at www.fvap.gov will make the registration and absentee ballot application process "quick, easy, seamless and

  • VA offers newest edition of benefit handbook

    The 2010 edition of the Federal Benefits for Veterans, Dependents and Survivors is available online at www1.va.gov/opa/publications/benefits_book.asp. Produced by the Department of Veterans Affairs, the handbook's chapters cover such topics as VA pensions, home loans, medals and records, special

  • Veterans' grave medallion available for order

    Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki announced June 29 that the Department of Veterans Affairs is offering bronze medallions to attach to existing, privately purchased headstones or markers, signifying a deceased's status as a veteran. "For veterans not buried in a national or state veterans