The Department Of Veterans Affairs

The Department of Veterans’ Affairs is the 14th created Department in the Cabinet. Officially created as a cabinet department in 1930, the Department of Veterans’ affairs works to provide services for the Veterans of the United States Military. Along with providing many services to veterans, the Department of Veterans’ Affairs also runs every national cemetery, except for Arlington, which the Department of the Army, a subclass of the Department of Defense, runs. The Veterans’ Affairs Department’s mission is to “to fulfill President Lincoln's promise, ‘To care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan’, by serving and honoring the men and women who are America's veterans.” Veterans currently have a plethora of benefits, including compensation, home loans, pensions, education, and medical services. …show more content…
103.6 billion will be spent no matter what, and 78.7 billion will be what is called ‘discretionary spending’, spent on what the Department thinks important, or not spent at all. There are three Administrations under the authority of the Department of Veterans’ Affairs: The National Cemetery Administration, the Veterans’ Benefits Administration, and the Veterans’ Health Administration. There are 21 separate offices in the VA. Interestingly, the Department of the Army previously ran most of the cemeteries currently managed by the National Cemetery Administration, but it was transferred to the Department of Veterans’ Affairs in 1973. All in all, the Department of Veterans’ Affairs is a sprawling Department, doing everything it can to take care of the United States’