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New in the VA Health and Benefits Mobile App: View your benefit overpayment debt details
If you have a benefit overpayment debt related to disability compensation, pension or education benefits, it’s now viewable in the VA Health and Benefits mobile app.
VA funding fee: Who pays and who is exempt?
A VA funding fee can help you benefit from features like no down payment and no monthly private mortgage insurance.
Veterans may be eligible for TSA PreCheck at no cost
Leave your shoes and belt on and beat the TSA lines at the airport. Veterans may qualify for TSA PreCheck at no cost.
VA updates home loan appraisal requirements to help Veterans compete in today’s housing market
Updated home loan appraisal requirements reduce delays, cut outdated rules, and help Veteran homebuyers move faster in a competitive housing market.
How you can help to stop elder fraud
The best way to protect against elder fraud is to learn about scammers’ aggressive calls, texts, emails, websites, social media messages and deceptive letters.
Ever heard of VA’s Energy Efficient Mortgages?
VA’s Energy Efficient Mortgages are helping Veterans save money and improve their homes.
The paths to high-demand careers in the skilled trades
Many skilled-trades careers offer paid apprenticeships and OJT, no 4-year degree required. New VA and DOL partnership shows you how to get started.
Level up your transition with a free VA Benefits and Services course
Whether you’re leaving the military soon, just got out, or been out for decades, the free TAP BAS course is your gateway to everything VA.
Never giving up: Rocky Fernandez’s path to engineering
After a life-altering injury, Rocky Fernandez overcame years of obstacles, pursued education with determination, and earned his engineering degree.
Louisiana Students Loft Payloads from NASA Balloon Facility in Texas
Every spring in Palestine, Texas, the wide-open fields around NASA’s Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility fill with students and faculty from across Louisiana. They arrive carrying sensors, laptops, and carefully engineered payloads they have spent months preparing. The goal is to send their experiments to the edge of space and return with meaningful data, while reflecting…
Department of Education: Accountability in Higher Education and Access Through Demand-Driven Workforce Pell: Student Tuition and Transparency System (STATS) and Earnings Accountability
GAO reviewed the Department of Education’s (ED) new rule entitled “Accountability in Higher Education and Access Through Demand-Driven Workforce…
USGS releases assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources in Woodford and Barnett shales
RESTON, Va. — The U.S. Geological Survey released its assessment of undiscovered gas and oil in the Woodford and Barnett shales in the Permian Basin, assessing that there are technically recoverable resources of 28.3 trillion cubic feet of gas – enough to supply the United States for 10 months at the current rate of consumption –…
