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SOURCE: www.va.gov Washington, D.C. . . . As part of Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki’s efforts to streamline access to benefits, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has removed the signature requirement for Veterans who electronically submit an [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.tester.senate.gov Senator Pushed To Keep Vital Service For Rural America Washington, D.C. . . . . The Senate panel that overseas the budget of the U.S. Postal Service will not consider cutting mail delivery to five days per week, [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.army.mil/hprrsp Washington, D.C., July 29, 2010 . . . The Army today released the Health Promotion, Risk Reduction and Suicide Prevention (HP/RP/PC) Report, the result of a focused 15-month effort to better understand the increasing rate of suicides in [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.va.gov Washington, D.C. . . . The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has approved $2.8 million to fund three new research projects that focus on testing or developing treatments for illnesses affecting Veterans who served in the Gulf War [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.hhs.gov Washington . . . The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced two key steps in the process of partnering with states and other stakeholders to begin establishing health insurance Exchanges.  HHS announced the availability of [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.hhs.gov Grants Help To Support Community-Based Alternatives To Institutional Long Term Care Americans with disabilities will have more help to live independently and remain in their homes and communities instead of in institutional long-term care facilities, such as nursing [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.whitehouse.gov By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to establish the Federal Government as a model employer of individuals with disabilities, it is [...] Read More

SOURCE: tricare.mil Falls Church, VA . . . TRICARE beneficiaries living outside of the United States will soon begin receiving letters updating them on the TRICARE Overseas Program Contract that begins Sept. 1, 2010.  Beneficiaries will receive the letter only [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.dhs.gov Washington, D.C. . . . Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano today met with leaders of several veterans service organizations – at a meeting hosted by Disabled American Veterans – to discuss DHS’ ongoing collaboration and [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.va.gov Washington, D.C. . . . In an effort to prevent homelessness among veterans, primarily those returning from the wards in Afghanistan and Iraq, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the U.S. Department of Veterans [...] Read More