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By Mercy SackorBob Jones, 5 days ago A new veterans housing project is in the works to help low-income and homeless veterans in Akron. One veteran, Andrew Livingston, spoke to News 5's Bob Jones about his experience. "Being a veteran means a lot to me. My dad was a veteran. My brother is a veteran. My sister is a veteran, so we got a house full of veterans," Livingston said. Livingston is a Desert Storm Army veteran who stays at the Valor Home of Summit County in Akron. It offers transitional...

By Warren Cohen, 20 hours ago A Vietnam veteran who developed high blood pressure years after returning from service used to face a brutal catch-22 when filing a VA disability claim: prove that herbicide sprayed in a jungle 50 years ago caused a condition that millions of Americans develop for other reasons. The medical evidence was nearly impossible to produce, and the VA denied claims like these for decades. That changed when Congress added hypertension, hypothyroidism, and monoclonal...

By Warren Cohen,1 days ago Veterans diagnosed with hypertension, monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS), male breast cancer, urethral cancer, or cancer of the paraurethral glands can now file for service-connected benefits without assembling individual proof of toxic exposure during deployment. The Department of Veterans Affairs added all five conditions to its PACT Act presumptive list, shifting the burden of proof away from the veteran and onto the agency. For claimants...