veterans affairs
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Sen. Douglas J. J. Peters of Prince George's County criticized Gansler for claiming he would reduce the delays in processing by the Veterans Administration. - On the job as a member of the Coast Guard, Ryan Kazmarek said he learned responsibility and discipline. But off-duty, the Dundalk man struggled with a "work hard, party hard lifestyle" that led him to alcoholism and — after he left the service — homelessness.
- In honor of Veterans Day, Howard County is expanding options for wounded veterans who seek healing in nature. County Executive Ken Ulman announced Tuesday that the county is partnering with a therapeutic services group for veterans to improve accessibility at one of Howard's best fly-fishing spots.
- Post-military service can be a period of anxiety and uncertainty. So many men and women return and ask themselves: what now? The Labor Department is here to help answer that question with an array of programs designed to clear pathways into the middle class.
- No Person Left Behind is a program of Operation Second Chance that brings together men and women with an appreciation of the outdoors — all things hunting and fishing — with wounded veterans, and it's a group with strong local ties. It is a program of Operation Second Chance, a nonprofit that aides wounded veterans, and is holding a fundraising in Laurel.
- The Department of Veterans Affairs is approving claims for post-traumatic stress disorder stemming from military sexual assault or harassment at rates that are "significantly lower" than those for PTSD from combat and other causes, advocacy groups said Thursday.
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- Maryland prisoners are training service dogs for veterans, in a program that has transformed hardened criminals into empathetic souls with soft hearts.
- Jeff Collins, a Vietnam veteran, chose to come out of retirement and apply for the position of Carroll County's first Veterans Services Program Coordinator. He started Oct. 7.
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- Effects of the partial federal government shutdown Tuesday were felt across Maryland, home to 300,000 federal workers, more government contractors, and several agencies.
- Shortages of beds, doctors and nurses in the Baltimore VA Medical Center's emergency room resulted in nearly half of a sample of patients spending more than 6 hours at the facility, including one who waited more than 24 hours, according to a critical inspection report released this month.
- Bonuses at VA office in Baltimore were thoroughly undeserved
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- The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in Baltimore gave $64,000 in bonuses to its employees since 2010, even as the percentage of backlogged disability claims for Maryland veterans outpaced the national average by double digits.
- In a letter sent Monday to the secretary of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Maryland's senior senator calls on the VA's Baltimore office to develop an action plan within 10 days to improve its "lackluster" approach to an initiative designed to speed up the time it takes to process disability claims.
- The beleaguered Veterans Affairs office in Baltimore excluded Maryland servicemen and servicewomen from a program designed to fast-track their disability claims, according to a senior American Legion official.
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- LGBT veterans and their partners could find themselves unable to receive equal veterans' benefits due to a portion of U.S. law, according to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
- Army Veteran Ventura Catala won a silver in the air gun and took a bronze in the javelin and discus at the 33rd annual National Veterans Wheelchair Games in Tampa, Fla., from July 13-18.
- Honorably discharged decades ago, a former Marine was living in a Baltimore homeless shelter surviving with the help of $255 a month for a disability he suffered while in the service.
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- Honorably discharged decades ago, a former Marine was living in a Baltimore homeless shelter surviving with the help of $255 a month for a disability he suffered while in the service.
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- Federal budget trimming should attack wasteful spending, not veterans benefits
- The Korean War is often known as the "forgotten war," but local veterans of the bloody three-year-conflict on the Korean Peninsula will be sharing their memories with Harford County residents this weekend, 60 years after the guns were silenced.
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- By the time you read this, Highland will have lost one of its iconic residents. Bill Dailey, Vietnam veteran, a U.S. Marine and retired postmaster of the Highland Post Office, has sold his home on Brown's Bridge Road and has moved to Dagsboro, Del.,to begin his next great adventure.
- The Senate Appropriations Committee will consider a 10-point plan this week to address the claims backlog at the Department of Veterans Affairs, Chairwoman Barbara A. Mikulski said Tuesday.
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- When Carroll County hires a veterans service officer later this summer, it will be the second initiative enacted by the county to assist its veterans population of nearly 15,000.
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- A two-year Veterans Health Administration study is looking at the Anklebot, an $80,000 rehabilitative machine that investigators say helps stroke survivors reclaim a normal gait even years later.
- As officials at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs look internally for solutions to a claims backlog that is drawing increasing fire from Capitol Hill, they are also reaching for outside help from some of the nation's best-known veterans groups.
- White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough visited the Baltimore regional office of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs on Friday to discuss efforts to address the agency's persistent backlog of veterans disability claims.
