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Virginia Veteran’s Justin Brown addresses veterans’ homelessness on Capitol Hill
October 1, 2009 - 4:04 pm
Tags: Justin Brown
Posted in News, Veterans Homelessness and Housing | No comments
Fast Forward 53 minutes if you do not want to see the entire hearing. http://veteransaffairs.edgeboss.net/wmedia/veteransaffairs/2009/091001.wvx
VETERANS’ HEALTH BILLS
10 a.m. Oct. 1, 334 Cannon Bldg. Updated
Subcommittee Hearing
Health Subcommittee (Chairman Michaud, D-Maine) of House Veterans’ Affairs Committee will hold a hearing on pending legislation.
Topic: Draft discussion on homelessness and graduate psychology education
Note: Witnesses added.
Agenda:
HR 1017 — Chiropractic Care [...]
Virginia Veteran Justin Brown to testify on behalf of VFW.
September 24, 2009 - 11:30 am
Tags: Justin Brown
Posted in News, Politics | No comments
VETERANS’ EMPLOYMENT, SMALL BUSINESS, EDUCATION, BENEFITS AND RIGHTS BILLS Watch the live webcast at 1 PM Eastern at http://veteransaffairs.edgeboss.net/wmedia-live/veteransaffairs/58214/100_veteransaffairs-hvac2_090402.asx
VETERANS’ EMPLOYMENT, SMALL BUSINESS, EDUCATION, BENEFITS AND RIGHTS BILLS
1 p.m. Sept. 24, 334 Cannon Bldg. Updated
Subcommittee Hearing
Economic Opportunity Subcommittee (Chairman Herseth Sandlin, D-S.D.) of House Veterans’ Affairs Committee will hold a hearing on pending legislation.
Note: A subcommittee [...]
Virginia Veteran’s Justin Brown Addresses VFW’s Current Conflict Veterans
August 25, 2009 - 9:26 am
Posted in Just Awesome, News, OEF, OIF | No comments
Justin Brown was in Phoenix for the VFW’s National Convention where he was given the opportunity to address VFW’s 2nd annual current conflict veterans forum. See the speech at the embedded youtube link below. Also, a transcript of the speech has been attached.
Good afternoon Comrades,
It is great honor to be given such an opportunity to [...]
House panel passes new GI Bill changes
July 23, 2009 - 3:49 pm
Tags: Buck McKeon, Susan Davis
Posted in Benefits, GI-Bill, News, Politics | No comments
By Rick Maze – Staff writer Military Times
A federal student aid bill was amended Tuesday by a House committee to increase Post-9/11 GI Bill benefits for veterans in states that heavily subsidize tuition at public colleges, and to expand student loan forgiveness for National Guard and reserve members when they’re mobilized.
The GI Bill change, sponsored by [...]
Soldiers’ emotional battle scars put doctors in dilemma
July 20, 2009 - 8:37 am
Tags: Iraq, National Guard, PTSD, suicide, Traumatic Brain Injury, VA, Veteran
Posted in Healthcare, Mental health, News, PTSD, TBI, Veterans Affairs | No comments
The suicide of an Iraq war veteran in Eastern Washington has highlighted an ethical dilemma confronting the Department of Veterans Affairs and the military: how far to go in protecting patient confidentiality as troubled veterans are called back to front-line duty.
By Hal Bernton
Seattle Times staff reporter
July 20, 2009
Tim Juneman went to a Department of Veterans [...]
Virginia Veteran’s Justin Brown to Testify on behalf of VFW
July 16, 2009 - 12:00 pm
Tags: Charles Rowe. Dan Wellman, Justin Brown, keith wilson, mark walker, patrick campbell, Raymond Kelley, Skip Gebhart
Posted in GI-Bill, News, Politics, Veterans Affairs | No comments
Economic Opportunity Subcommittee (Chairman Herseth Sandlin, D-S.D.) of House Veterans’ Affairs Committee will hold a hearing on State Approving Agencies (SAA). Federal law requires that each state designate an SAA to be responsible for approving and supervising programs in educational institutions and training establishments, including all public and private schools and all establishments offering apprenticeship [...]
VA Health Care for Women Veterans
July 15, 2009 - 8:00 am
Tags: Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs, VA healthcare, Veteran Affairs
Posted in Benefits and Claims, Healthcare, Mental health, Personal Story, Politics, Veterans Affairs, Women's Issues | No comments
By Kayla Williams, U.S. Army Veteran
Kayla Williams testified Tuesday before the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs on VA Health Services for Women Veterans. The following is her testimony.
Mr. Chairman and members of the Committee, thank you for hearing me speak today. On behalf of women veterans, I would like to thank you all for your commitment [...]
Report: VA putting patients at risk of overdose
July 11, 2009 - 6:30 am
Tags: Iraq veteran, VA, VA health care, Veterans Affairs facility
Posted in Healthcare, Uncategorized, Veterans Affairs | No comments
By KIMBERLY HEFLING
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two years after an Iraq war veteran overdosed on medication at a Veterans Affairs facility, the problems blamed in his death have not been corrected at many of the VA’s residential treatment sites, a government study found.
The VA’s inspector general ordered the review as part of legislation passed [...]
Bill: Have VA pay old claims automatically
July 1, 2009 - 12:47 pm
Tags: claims, Veterans Administration, Veterans benefits
Posted in Benefits, Benefits and Claims, News, Politics, Veterans Affairs | No comments
By Rick Maze – Staff writer
Military Times
A North Carolina lawmaker proposes tackling the backlog of veterans’ disability claims by awarding benefits to veterans after 18 months if their claim hasn’t been processed.
Veterans Affairs Department officials have told Congress they are, on average, processing disability compensation claims within 162 days and have a goal of cutting [...]
Simple, simplicity…
June 28, 2009 - 12:00 pm
Tags: VA claims, Veterans
Posted in Benefits and Claims, Veterans Affairs | No comments
Sometimes all it takes is a simple solution to remedy a complex problem.
Take the VBA’s claims processing system and the backlog of close to a million claims. Some experts assert that more Ratings Specialists are needed; the problem with that is it takes a good two-to-three years to train the person to competently rate claims. [...]
