Type of Action: Legislation

June 13, 2007
WASHINGTON — Almost two decades after pledging to take care of veterans, Democratic Rep. Chet Edwards finally has built enough seniority in Congress to fulfill his promise.
Edwards used his post as an appropriations subcommittee chairman to deliver a $64.7 billion bill funding veterans and military construction programs to the […]

Type of Action: Letter to senator

June 12, 2007
WASHINGTON, June 12, 2007–The national commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S. is asking his entire membership to contact their U.S. senators and urge them to support S. 22, the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2007.
The bill, which was introduced in January by […]

Type of Action: Legislation

June 12, 2007
"Our men and women in uniform serve this country everyday and the very least we owe them is a fair tax policy," Senator Kerry said. "Our military leaves behind their families and their businesses without complaint, yet we have a tax system that often punishes them if […]

Type of Action: Heads up on Tricare

June 11, 2007
The Pentagon-appointed Task Force on the Future of Military Health has endorsed higher TRICARE fees, deductibles and copayments for under-65 retirees and their families in an interim report sent to Congress on May 31. It also backs other key features of the so-called TRICARE […]

Type of Action: Heads up on veterans’ compensation.

June 12, 2007
The Department of Veterans Affairs should revise the system for compensation of veterans who become disabled as a result of injuries experienced during their military service, according to a report released on Thursday by the Institute of Medicine, the Washington Post reports. The Veterans’ […]

Type of Action: Heads up on mental health treatment

June 11, 2007
Soldiers returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan "are finding it more difficult" to receive mental health treatment because therapists say reimbursement rates for care are too low, the AP/Arizona Daily Star reports. According to the AP/Daily Star, about one-third of the […]

Type of Action: Heads up New Jersey Veterans

June 11, 2007
(TRENTON) - The Assembly today passed a measure Assemblymen Jack Conners and Herb Conaway, M.D., sponsored that would extend civil service credit to any disabled veteran who served in the United States Armed Forces, regardless of whether the nation was at peace or at […]

Type of Action: Position

By PATRICK KENNEDY
The Providence Journal
Wednesday, June 06, 2007
Especially on this most recent Memorial Day, during wartime, everybody sings the praises of our veterans, and rightly so. But talk is cheap. The real measure of our gratitude and respect for those who carry our flag will be years from now when […]

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.
The limitations approved by the Joint Finance Committee last week:…
Read the entire story at The […]

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
Read the entire article at ABC News