Backlogs for resolving benefits applications surged in 2023, a year after Congress passed a law lowering the threshold for veterans to show that various illnesses were the consequence of exposure ...

Blumenthal, Connecticut's senior senator, spoke about his support for the Major Medical Facility Authorization Act at the Veterans' Affairs hospital West Haven campus earlier this month.

"It's not us yet, but it's everybody else," said Katie Kus of Old Lyme, who has been a registered nurse at the West Haven VA Medical Center for 35 years, adding Connecticut VA employees are ...

The Trump administration has planned to fire 80,000 VA employees and cut nearly 900 contracts. Some Connecticut veterans say ...

a grassroots nonprofit based in West Haven that raises money to support the veteran community living on the periphery of the city’s Veterans Affairs hospital campus. He said that as a patient of ...