veterans affairs
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A bipartisan group of lawmakers pressed the Obama administration on Wednesday to reduce the backlog of disability claims at the Department of Veterans Affairs by improving cooperation between the agencies that have a role in the process. - Lawmakers exempted the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs from the across-the-board cuts to the federal budget known as sequestration, but veterans still could feel the sting.
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- Six military veterans from Maryland pleaded guilty this week to defrauding the government by obtaining federal military benefits with faked documentation that they were exposed to Agent Orange during the Vietnam War, according to the Maryland U.S. Attorney's Office.
- Maryland's U.S. House delegation met Wednesday with Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric K. Shinseki to keep pressure on the agency to fix problems at the troubled Baltimore office and follow up on promises for improvement.
- A group of Korean War veterans presented a $1,000 donation to the Harford County Public Library Thursday in an effort to support library programs to commemorate this year's 60th anniversary of the end of the war.
- The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs announced Friday a plan to fast-track disability claims at least a year old, a move that advocates expect will bring relief to Maryland servicemen and women who face one of the largest backlogs in the country.
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- With staff members at the Baltimore office of the Department of Veterans Affairs spending a month in training, Maryland's senators called on VA Secretary Eric K. Shinseki to dispatch more analysts to help work through one of the worst disability claims backlogs in the nation.
- As federal agencies pull back on spending, 7Delta's strategy is thinking big. The Columbia IT firm is going after larger contracts, a diversification tactic that other federal contractors at the smaller end of the scale are trying, too: Expansion in a time of retrenchment.
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- When Retired Master Sgt. Sheryl A. Webb left the U.S., Army in 1997, she was scarcely aware of services the U.S. Veterans Administration hospitals offered services tailored to women
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- A former high-ranking official at the Maryland Department of Veterans Affairs has been accused of running a kickback scheme from his state office — allegedly fabricating military achievements and disability claims in exchange for a cut of the resulting government payouts.
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- The Baltimore office of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, the nation's worst performer in processing disability claims, will receive more employee training, an influx of senior staff and a new digital processing system ahead of schedule.
- The Baltimore office of the Veterans of Foreign Wars helped more than 1,500 Maryland servicemen and servicewomen last year collect $26.4 million in disability benefits from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. That is nearly triple the number of individuals in 2011.
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- Federal agencies that own historic buildings — including many in Maryland — are struggling to maintain or find new uses for them, a problem that has been made more acute by recent budget cuts.
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- For 21/2 years, Iraq combat veteran Robert Fearing battled overwhelming anxiety and paranoia, a remnant of the mortar attacks he endured in the desert, all the while swallowing his frustration at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs for failing him.
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- The failures of the VA are an embarrassment to the Obama administration.
- Where were Maryland's elected officials when veterans were mistreated by VA office?
- Calling the failures at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in Baltimore inexcusable, Maryland's congressional leadership on Monday demanded the beleaguered agency develop an immediate action plan to fix the local problems and assign a senior official to ensure progress is made.
- Letter from Sens. Mikulski and Cardin to Va secretary
- The Baltimore-based office of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is the slowest in the country to process disability claims for servicemen and women, averaging about a year, and also makes more mistakes than any other office.
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