The Disabled American Veterans recently posed a series of questions to both presidential candidates McCain and Obama on some very important veterans issues.
The questions revolved around improving Veterans Administration services and benefits to veterans, and included questions on VA funding and funding reform, VA eligibility for care, claims backlogs, and disability compensation reform.
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At each VA Medical Center, a Women Veterans Program Manager is assigned to assist women veterans. If you are a woman veteran interested in receiving VA care, contact the nearest VA Medical Center and ask for the Women Veterans Program Manager. She can help coordinate all the services you may need, from Medical [...] Marcia Rock, a professor at New York University Journalism wants to tell the story of veterans recovery and adjustment to civilian life. Arts For Peace Pot Luck Fundraiser and Picnic to benefit United Spinal’s VetsFirst program. Our thoughts are with those who through their sacrifice have preserved our nation and our freedom. Whenever our banner is unfurled or our voices raised in the singing of our anthem, then shall we realize the worth of their sacrifice. As a result of the recently enacted economic stimulus law, about 130 million Americans will receive a tax credit in the form of a rebate check. However, the only way to receive a rebate from the government is to file a 2007 tax return. This includes recipients of veterans’ benefits who may, [...] The US Department of Justice is arguing that Iraq and Afghanistan veterans have no right to specific types of medical care and that Congress and veterans don’t have any say in the matter.
“United Spinal Association is appalled, but not surprised in the slightest, that the VA’s top medical official recently lied to Congress about the lengthy delays that wounded and disabled veterans face in receiving critically needed VA medical care nationwide,” said Paul J. Tobin, President and CEO. “It is an intolerable situation and the crisis [...] New York, NY – In an effort to provide the highest standard of representation to disabled veterans and their families, United Spinal Association and Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA) recently conducted their first advanced training seminar for federally-accredited veterans service representatives from across the nation. The seminar, which was held on August 28 – [...] Type of Action: Funding June 13, 2007 After the agency was faulted last month for awarding $3.8 million in bonuses in fiscal 2006, the VA’s deputy secretary explained yesterday that the money went to seasoned federal executives who excel at running the department’s health-care, benefits and cemetery programs. Read the [...] |
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