Veterans Administration
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Veterans Administration. Congress established the cabinet‐status Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) in 1989 as a successor to the Veterans Administration. The VA represents the most recent in a long series of government agencies concerned with veterans, a legacy from the
Colonial Era. The type and extent of veteran benefits and their administration also have changed over time.
Initially, Congress and then the War Department administered pensions to disabled veterans and their dependents. In 1849 Congress transferred pension jurisdiction to the newly formed Department of the Interior. After the
Civil War, Congress established the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, actually a number of facilities in various states, to provide care to indigent and disabled veterans. Following
World War I, Congress formed the U.S. Veterans Bureau (VB) to consolidate several federal agencies that administered veteran benefits. In 1930 Congress merged the VB, the National Homes, and the Bureau of Pensions into the Veterans Administration. Frank T. Hines, director of the VB since 1923, continued as VA director until 1945.
World War II vastly increased the VA's duties, including administration of the home‐loan guarantees and programs for education and training established by the
Servicemen's Readjustment Act (the so‐called G.I. Bill of Rights). Subsequent legislation extended these responsibilities still further. In 1973 the army transferred to the VA oversight of the national military cemetery system, except for
Arlington National Cemetery. By 2000, the VA, serving almost 25 million veterans and millions more dependents of veterans, employed approximately 220,000 persons, managed the nation's fourth largest insurance program, and operated the country's largest medical system, including 173 hospitals.
See also
American Legion;
Federal Government, Executive Branch: Other Departments;
Military, The;
Welfare, Federal.
Bibliography
Keith W. Olson , Veterans Administration, in Government Agencies, ed. Donald R. Whitnah, 1983, pp. 598–602.
Keith W. Olson
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