To enable VA to determine correct income-based VA benefits based on amount of SSA benefits.
To verify and update master records of VA beneficiaries receiving income dependent benefits and adjust VA benefits.
To identify VA employees who owe delinquent debts to VA and to collect those debts through salary offset.
Its soft-spoken chief executive dreamed of dressing young starlets in va-va-voom clothing.
To identify recipients of VA compensation benefits who have returned to active duty, adjust or terminate VA benefits and collect any overpayments.
To identify persons improperly receiving redundant benefits under different Federal benefits programs and to adjust VA income dependent benefits and VA benefit payments.
After a lot of planning and hard work, VA is launching the first phase of the new look and feel of our homepage VA.gov.
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It was developed at VA hospitals in the 1970s by a determined band of programmers who went rogue when VA bureaucrats shut their project down.
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Once a home has been recognized, the VA pays a portion of the per diem cost as long as the home continues to meet VA standards.
At this very moment, the VA is operating without a budget, making it harder for VA medical centers and clinics to deliver the care our vets need.
As additional personal health information becomes available to VA patients through the My HealtheVet personal health record, this will also be added to the VA Blue Button download.
So we are in the process of investing more in the VA and reforming how business is done at the VA than at any time in the last 30 years.
The military and the VA have also spent millions trying to enhance suicide prevention programs, with the VA earlier this year announcing plans to hire an additional 1, 600 mental-health clinicians.
According to this FLRA decision available here, Lee Hurlock, president of Government Employees Local 2096 in Dahlgren, Va. allegedly was arrested for driving while intoxicated in King George County, Va. in 2009.
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Yes, more than a few Democrats will claim that the Veterans Administration health program is the liberal Shangri-la: an integrated single-payer system in which government pays VA doctors directly and owns and runs VA hospitals.
Earlier this month, the Center for Investigative Reporting released a leaked internal VA document that showed the entire world what veterans nationwide have known for years: the VA backlog problem is even worse than reported.
The argument for the proposal is that it frees up money for the VA by charging the private insurers, allowing the VA to spend on more services, said Joe Violante, legislative director for Disabled American Veterans, who opposes the idea.
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The VA said it is pursuing a thorough review of the situation and it "does not condone misconduct by its employees and will take the appropriate corrective actions for those who violate VA policy, " according to a statement provided to CNN.
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Despite what we know about veterans' suicides, a recent report from the VA inspector general's office found that about a third of veterans considered to be at high risk for suicide don't receive the recommended follow-up care after they've been discharged from VA inpatient mental health care.
Red was the color of the evening: Sandra Bullock wore a strapless red Vera Wang dress, Jennifer Hudson showed off her svelte frame in a va-va-voom tangerine Versace gown, and host Anne Hathaway sported two red dresses throughout the night (one by Valentino and one, very briefly worn on stage, by Versace).
Late yesterday, Senators Ben Cardin (D-MD), Barbara A. Mikulski (D-MD), Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Mark Warner (D-VA) and Jim Webb (D-VA) wrote a letter to House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), urging the use a pro forma session of Congress in order to offer a solution.
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Continental said last month that Mr. Pope and other executives had "destroyed" the Smithfield, Va.
Randy Beeman, a 53-year-old managing director of the Wise Investor Group in Reston, Va.
And the reason we did it was because a lot of VA facilities had gotten outdated.
In September, Mr. Welch moved to Dallas for a VA medical center more to his liking.
DeBakey VA Medical Center in Houston, says our pain threshold goes down when we're sleep-deprived.
She continues to volunteer in and around NYC and at the VA in Bay Bridge.
Drawn from the Casa Buonarroti and originating at the Muscarelle Museum of Art in Williamsburg, Va.
Eyeballing different brands, Jim White, a registered dietitian and owner of a Virginia Beach, Va.
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