Veterans Affairs

With the help of two Tampa-area VA offices, more homeless veterans than ever were taken off the street this year and given live-changing benefits.

Veterans with male breast cancer will face additional requirements to obtain VA care and disability benefits. The agency says the Biden administration falsely classified men's breasts as reproductive organs.

Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins is aiming for a 15 percent cut in the agency's budget, even as it's serving a growing population of veterans.

In Central Florida, FAMU and the University of Central Florida are recognized for providing additional support or resources to military students and their families.

The VA's sports clinics introduce veterans to adaptive activities to help them recover from injuries and make fitness a part of their lives.

He ended up at a VA Medical Center in Gainesville seeking a voluntary stay for mental health treatment. Instead, he was involuntarily held under Florida’s Baker Act. Six months later, he killed himself.

Though the VA says there isn't a hiring freeze, federal data shows the agency has been dealing with "severe shortages" of nurses for years. Nurses in Tampa say they're feeling the strain.

Spouses of former military members are now fifth in the priority list to be admitted to state veterans' nursing homes.

The clinic shares space with a MacDill Air Force Base health center, part of a growing partnership between the military and the VA.

The Transgender American Veterans Association is suing the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs two years after the department said it would provide gender-affirming surgery.

About a quarter of all suicide deaths occur among troops caught up in legal or administrative battles - sometimes for minor infractions.

Veterans and their survivors now have until 11:59 p.m. Monday to apply for those benefits backdated to include the past year since President Joe Biden signed the PACT Act into law.