Veterans Administration

In a housing market convulsed by tight credit, flattened prices and weak home sales, there is a silver lining for one segment of the market: U.S. military veterans seeking V.A. home loans. Most honorably discharged veterans are eligible for Department of Veteran Affairs home loans. What's the...

About 1.5 million of nearly 22 million troops who have served are women. But recent military conflicts, including those in Iraq and Afghanistan, show that upon returning home, female veterans don't always get the support they need to reintegrate into society.

Mike Rowe, host of TLC's Dirty Jobs, knows a lot about tough jobs, but the toughest one he's tackling is helping America's veterans find employment. Rowe notes that joblessness for returning servicepeople is over 18%, adding "It's a scandal."

Veterans Day may honor those who served in our military, but many vets aren't getting the honor they deserve on a day-to-day basis. In fact, only one-third of elderly veterans are receiving the health care coverage promised by Uncle Sam, according to the government. The paperwork can be daunting...

Long-term care is horrifyingly expensive – as The New York Times pointed out in an analysis this week, entitled "ignore Long-Term Care at Your Peril." Long-term care insurer Genworth offers this 2010 online state-by-state calculator of the cost of long-term care. The government offered these...

One of the reasons Americans pay so much for health care is the fee-for-service model at the heart of our insurance programs. Simply put, our system gives patients no reason to pay attention to costs and providers every reason to pad the bill.

As reports about record payouts for Wall Street and record deficits trade off on the front page, millions of Americans are wondering what's going on with their economy and their political system. Many of the nearly 200 reader comments made in response to my recent piece, Middle class squeeze: The...

Being someone who tries to steal from people through scams means having to come up with some believable proposition with the potential to get the person on the other end to give up money or private information. The latest scam in this never-ending series is targeting those who served the United...