VA Makes Changes To Beneficiary Travel Pay. The Veterans Benefits Administration is making changes to its Beneficiary Travel Pay program policies within VA Vocational Rehabilitation (VR&E) governed by M28R VR&E Manual due to pay out problems. The reason for the change is that 25% of all errors in the travel pay system indicate payment to veterans who are not eligible for travel pay.
Mikhail Gorbachev was the last General Secretary of the Soviet Union. Appointed in 1985, Gorbachev's domestic reforms and nuclear disarmament deals helped end the Cold War but ultimately led to the dramatic downfall of communism in Europe. Photo: Mikhail Gorbachev, 1991 (Getty)
But once glasnost let people say what they thought, many people said: We want out.. By December 1991, the Soviet Union ceased to exist. Gorbachev's foreign policy, which he called new thinking, also contributed to the Cold War's end.Gorbachev said that security was a game from which all could benefit through co-operation.ltimately, the deepest causes of the Soviet collapse were the decline of communist ideology and economic failure. This would have happened even without Gorbachev. In the early Cold War, communism and the Soviet Union had considerable soft power.