VA Press Room

VA launches new pilot program at six VA facilities to help Veterans establish VA.gov accounts faster than ever before, which means speedier access to VA services, care and benefits.

VA awards $16 million in new grants to 91 community-based organizations across the country that provide adaptive sports programs for Veterans and service members with disabilities.

VA releases 2026 National Veteran Suicide Prevention Annual Report, which analyzes Veteran suicide from 2001 to 2024, the most recent year for which data is available.

VA awards $111.9 million in grants to 191 community organizations that provide suicide prevention services to Veterans across the country.

New VA guidance on informed consent increases transparency for Veterans before they receive a prescription for psychotropic medications, which include antipsychotics, stimulants, antidepressants, anxiolytics and opioids.

More than three million VA disability benefits claims for Veterans have been processed in fiscal year 2026 as of Sept. 18, 2026, faster than ever before.

Veterans nearly $150 million in insurance premium payments starting in November, when VA implements the first-ever premium holiday for the Veterans’ Group Life Insurance program.

A record high of $1.17 billion in VA grants awarded to 680 organizations across the country to help Veterans who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. The grants, which will be distributed in FY2027, come after VA housed 51,936 homeless Veterans in fiscal year 2025, the most in seven years.

President Donald J. Trump today signed an executive order that will reduce by weeks the average time it takes Veterans to secure Department of Veterans Affairs benefits.

VA dedicates Nevada’s first national cemetery in Elko, Nevada.