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While the Orlando VA Medical Center languishes well behind its promised delivery date, those most inconvenienced might take some comfort in knowing they're not alone. The 1.2-million-square-foot hospital under construction at Lake Nona Medical City isn't the only VA project having problems. Read more »

It scores higher than Hershey, the chocolate maker, and even Cadillac. On the American Customer Satisfaction Index, which rates private companies and government agencies on a scale of zero to 100, the little-known National Cemetery Administration not only beats the State Department and the Pentagon but also Google and Amazon. Read more »

Yesterday the part of the White House Administration known as the Office of Management and Budget released a letter responding to a request for the OMB’s official view on whether or not VA healthcare programs would be exempt from the impact of the looming sequestration. Read more »

The Veterans Administration is exempt from the automatic cuts that could hit the discretionary budget in January 2013, the Office of Management and Budget said Monday. Read more »

Jacob Manning waited until his wife and teenage son had left the house, then walked into his garage to kill himself. Read more »

The Department of Veterans Affairs’ budget is exempt from the threat of automatic cuts to federal spending scheduled to be made next year, the White House said Monday afternoon. Read more »

The White House’s Monday announcement that veterans’ health programs would not be subject to reductions under sequestration was too little, too late for the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee chairman. Read more »

The White House Office of Management and Budget ended months of political and media conjecture Monday when officials announced that programs under the Department of Veterans Affairs, including healthcare, would not be subject to the $500 billion tranche of budget cuts scheduled to hit the Defense Department if sequestration takes effect. Read more »

Funding for veterans’ health care programs is not subject to sequestration, the White House budget office announced Monday, ending months of speculation about how across-the-board budget cuts could be applied early next year if Congress cannot find a way to avoid fiscal disaster. Read more »

Administration officials ruled Monday that the Department of Veterans Affairs will be exempt from massive federal budget cuts scheduled to go into effect early next year. Read more »