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SOURCE: www.va.gov In response to President Obama’s Executive Order, the Departments of Defense (DoD) and Veterans Affairs (VA) highlighted today the establishment of two joint research consortia, at a combined investment of $107 million to research the diagnosis and treatment [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.va.gov The Department of Veterans Affairs, the American Bar Association (ABA) and the Legal Services Corporation (LSC) announced today a new partnership and pilot program aimed at reducing the claims backlog and making it easier for unrepresented Veterans to [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.va.gov The Department of Veterans Affairs has launched an awareness campaign and a new website,www.va.gov/aca, to let Veterans know what the Affordable Care Act means for them and their families.  Veterans receiving health care from the Department of Veterans [...] Read More

Dr. Arnold Roth Faces 1 to 3 Years Behind Bars After Admitting He Sold $480K Worth of Rx Narcotics With Fraudulent Prescriptions Schneiderman: My Office Will Seek Prison For Doctors Who Traffic In Prescription Drugs-* Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman [...] Read More

The leader of the nation’s largest independent union of federal employees today called on members of the House of Representatives to reject this week a handful of damaging bills misdirected at the federal workforce for political purposes. In a letter [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.opm.gov “Today’s historic decision by the Supreme Court that the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional is a much welcome development in the continuing quest to ensure equal treatment under the law to all Americans.  For the federal government [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.hhs.gov Obama administration awards $150 million to provide enrollment assistance Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced $150 million in grant awards to 1,159 health centers across the nation to enroll uninsured Americans in new health [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.justice.gov The Justice Department today announced it filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York against Erie County, N.Y., alleging that the county discriminated against an employee with a disability.  The department [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.ag.ny.gov Aide Face Three Years Behind Bars After Felony Guilty Plea Schneiderman: Thefts From Of Our Taxpayer-Funded Medicaid Program Are Intolerable Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today announced the guilty plea of personal care aide Toya Croley for knowingly submitting [...] Read More