The U.S. Department of Labor wants to hear from disabled vets. This is your chance to be heard on how to increase employment opportunities for veterans with disabilities.
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Hey Vets, beware of the “Patient Care Group” scam that is attempting to obtain credit card information from our vets. The Veterans Administration wrongly notified 1200 veterans that they have ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease). VA is blaming it all on a computer generated coding error. The VA’s new Expedited Claims Adjudication Program may be a smoke and mirrors illusion that clouds the actual backlog of claims for disability compensation, pension and other veterans’ benefits. United Spinal’s VetsFirst partners with Veterans Health Council to improve veterans health by creating an ongoing educational forum for veterans, health care professionals, advocacy organizations, educational institutions, employee representatives, businesses, and state and local governments. Are Veterans being used as Guinea pigs by the VA? A recent ABC News/Washington Times investigative report thinks they are. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) recently published an updated edition of the Federal Benefits for Veterans and Dependents handbook.
“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 [...] Type of Alert: Heads up Wisconsin Veterans The state’s budget-writing committee helped Wisconsin’s university and technical college systems by covering part of the cost of giving veterans free tuition, but also hurt some veterans by limiting the benefit in various ways. Heads up from: ABC News The U.S. government’s system for rating the severity of military veterans’ disabilities to set payment levels is "out of sync with modern medicine" and should be overhauled, an expert panel said on Thursday. By Will DunhamJun 7, 2007 |
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