I think there are challenges with raising the age, and I think one of the challenges is, clearly, it is going to become very difficult to ask a coal miner to go down in that mine w...
I just want to thank the chairman for calling this hearing. There is probably no more important subject for us to be talking about.
The solutions are not easy, but Senator Toomey's comments about preserving the tax benefits and incentives of government policy to direct pe...
In 1983, when Reagan and O'Neill, Tip O'Neill, changed the Social Security rules, I was 39 years old.
I want to thank VA for the attention they have been paying most recently to the veteran suicide issue but please remind them that until we g...
In fact, The American Legion recently testified that it found errors in over half of the decisions that it reviewed last year.
Today, more than a quarter of a million appeals are waiting to be resolved.
Although any true progress is welcome, I think there are still many reasons for concern.
Is there a particular medical problem that causes your adjudicators the biggest problems? Is there a particular medical condition?
To start with, nearly 700,000 veterans and their families do not yet have an answer to their requests for benefits.
We had a hearing in Atlanta in August 2012 on the veteran suicide problem at the Atlanta VA but also focused nationwide on the problem--that...