Did NC veterans' shelter head take taxpayer $ for personal use? http://j.mp/kx3C1y @postandcourier h/t Renee Dudley #MuckReads
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is investigating whether the former director of a North Charleston veterans' homeless shelter broke federal laws by using taxpayer-funded grants to bankroll her own lifestyle.
Insult to injury: Iowa vet struggles as VA's backlog of claims grows http://t.co/oRl7T22 #muckreads
Joel Klobnak still looks like a proud Marine - from his buzz-cut hair down to the red-white-and-blue prosthesis that replaced the leg he lost in Iraq in 2006. But he feels forgotten.
VA yanks vet's benefits, then restores them, higher, after stories: #MuckReads http://t.co/qxvETtH
Officials at the Department of Veterans Affairs have responded to a recent series of stories in The Post-Star about the plight of a Vietnam veteran whose benefit payments were cut off by reviewing the man's case, then restoring his payments at a higher level.
Veterans charity fraud continues despite widespread outrage http://huff.to/jW0Hbg via @huffingtonpost @mbaram #MuckReads
In the last few years, there have been several prominent cases of nonprofit groups that preyed on the public's patriotism and generosity, promising assistance to veterans while lining their own pockets. They range from an impostor -- currently one of the most-sought fugitives in the country -- who claimed he was a Navy commander and ripped off at least $2 million, to a classic fraudster, who set up a table for non-existent veterans groups in front of the local post office and raked in money for years.
Vets hit hard by foreclosure in Florida-What Went Wrong: The Betrayal of The American Dream http://t.co/2656sUs #muckreads h/t @AmericaWWW
After the Second World War, returning veterans were welcomed home to two of the most successful government initiatives ever — the FHA and VA housing programs — which put millions of them into their own homes for the first time. Today, later generations of veterans are being confronted by much different housing policies — ones that can toss them out of homes they've bought with their life savings.
2 veterans urge S. Korean lawmakers to pressure U.S. over Agent Orange: http://t.co/7xYCiTM #MuckReads
In testimony that was critical of the U.S. military and at times emotional, two U.S. veterans asked South Korean lawmakers Monday to pressure their American counterparts for an admission that the U.S. extensively used Agent Orange here in the 1960s and 1970s.
