Yearly Archives: 2016

Senators Demand Help for Military Borrowers Who Were Overcharged on Student Loans

Posted on March 4, 2016 by Team VCS

Murray, Warren, Blumenthal, Durbin Demand Help for Military Borrowers Who Were Overcharged on Student Loans The senators’ letter follows an Inspector General report showing the Department of Education released statistically flawed information, papering over mistreatment of military borrowers Years after … Continue reading →

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WASHINGTON FREE BEACON: Special Counsel Says VA Sought to Attack, Discredit Whistleblowers

Posted on March 1, 2016 by Team VCS

SOURCE:  Washington Beacon, Alana Goodman reporting, Feb. 29, 2016 http://freebeacon.com/issues/special-counsel-says-va-sought-to-attack-discredit-whistleblowers/ ARCHIVED ARTICLE: NOTE: The VA inspector general’s office did not respond to request for comment.   Special Counsel Says VA Sought to Attack, Discredit Whistleblowers By Alana Goodman The Washington … Continue reading →

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Sick veterans in South Texas travel hundreds of miles for health care

Posted on February 27, 2016 by Team VCS

Four mornings a week, two vans with government tags and volunteer drivers make circuits of the Rio Grande Valley, picking up veterans for a five-hour trip to the nearest veterans hospital in San Antonio. For the best traveling and packaging … Continue reading →

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On Gulf War’s 25th Anniversary, VA Failing to Treat its Signature Injury

Posted on February 23, 2016 by Team VCS

ARCHIVED ARTICLE SOURCE: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/on-gulf-wars-25th-anniversary-researchers–veterans-say-va-failing-to-treat-signature-injury-300224315.html ARCHIVED ARTICLE TEXT: On Gulf War’s 25th Anniversary, Researchers & Veterans Say VA Failing to Treat Signature Injury Congressional Hearing Marks Persian Gulf War’s 25th Anniversary with Sharp Criticism of VA Clinical Guideline and VA-Contracted Institute … Continue reading →

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VCS Testifies at Congressional Hearing on Gulf War Veterans’ Health, timed for Gulf War 25th Anniversary

Posted on February 23, 2016 by Team VCS

Veterans for Common Sense provided the following invited testimony for a February 23, 2016 Congressional hearing on Gulf War veterans’ health.  Anthony Hardie, VCS Director, testified and was accompanied by fellow Gulf War veteran and advocate David Winnett.  Winnett’s compelling … Continue reading →

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VCS to Testify Before Congress on Gulf War Veterans’ Health on War’s 25th Anniversary

Posted on February 23, 2016 by Team VCS

WASHINGTON — On Tuesday, February 23, 2016, at 4:30 p.m. in room 334 of the Cannon House Office Building, the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight & Investigations will hold an oversight hearing examining the medical care and … Continue reading →

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VCS: IOM Gulf War Report “Turns Science On Its Head,” Researchers Say

Posted on February 11, 2016 by Team VCS

  WASHINGTON, Feb. 11, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ –– Gulf War Illness is the “signature” health problem of 1991 Gulf War veterans, affecting an estimated 24-33{cd9ac3671b356cd86fdb96f1eda7eb3bb1367f54cff58cc36abbd73c33c82e1d} of the nearly 700,000 who served, according to a new report of the Institute of Medicine, but researchers … Continue reading →

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How For-Profit Colleges Hoodwink the G.I. Bill

Posted on January 9, 2016 by Team VCS

Source: Affordable-Online-Colleges.net Veterans for Common Sense actively supports common sense efforts to regulate G.I. Bill use at for-profit schools.  Contact us at info@veteransforcommonsense.org .

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VCS Calls on VA Secretary to “Clean House” at Florida VA Regional Office

Posted on January 6, 2016 by Team VCS

(Veterans for Common Sense – Jan. 6, 2016) – According to a Tampa Bay Times news story surrounding a new VA inspector general report, more than 41,000 pieces of mail containing veterans’ disability claim documentation were unopened  during a recent inspection at the troubled … Continue reading →

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