Since a revision of the Post-9/11 GI Bill was signed into law at the beginning of the year, we have made it a priority to explain the changes that could significantly impact students either attending school or about to start this fall. This week, many of those changes are being implemented, and it’s important that students understand how their benefits might be affected.
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Veterans groups get White House assurances on debt agreement
Representatives of veterans groups were assured by White House officials Monday that veterans benefits and compensation are safe from across-the-board spending cuts that could be triggered by the debt agreement under consideration.
Vets With PTSD, Government Reach Settlement
More than a thousand Iraq and Afghanistan veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder would be given lifetime disability retirement benefits such as military health insurance under the terms of a settlement reached between the government and the veterans.
STOP CONGRESS FROM PASSING AMERICA’S DEBT ONTO VETERANS
The 10 ways Congress is targeting military and veterans’ benefits during today’s difficult fiscal times are to:
- Increase healthcare premiums for military retirees on TRICARE
- Increase pharmaceutical fees for troops, families and retirees
- Eliminate presumptive service-connected conditions for disabled and ill veterans
- Lock out or increase fees for Department of Veterans Affairs Priority Groups 7 and 8 veterans
- Reduce cost-of-living allowances
- Freeze military pay
- End government subsidies to military commissaries
- Eliminate Department of Defense elementary schools stateside
- Eliminate the 20-year military retirement plan
- Eliminate DOD tuition reimbursement programs for service members
‘Virtual March’ planned to protect Disabled Vets
The nation’s largest organization representing disabled veterans and their families is organizing a “virtual march on Washington” on Facebook to protect veterans’ compensation and benefits from being targeted for cuts in the ongoing debt crisis negotiations.
Military’s Tricare Prime health care program targeted for cuts.
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) wants to cut taxpayer funding for non-military elements of the Defense Department, starting with making retired, uninjured service members pay more for what he described as “extremely low-cost health care for life” for themselves, their spouses and dependents under the Tricare Prime system.
West Seattle Grand Parade
As a reminder the West Seattle VFW will be in the West Seattle Grand Parade tomorrow, July 23 @ 11 am. If your in the area come by for what should be a great event.
http://thewestseattleparade.com/
Here are a few highlights, courtesy of the West Seattle Blog.
http://westseattleblog.com/category/west-seattle-grand-parade
Commander Ron Zuber @ the West Seattle Grand Parade.
Downrange deployments linked to untreatable lung ailment
Some soldiers have returned from Iraq and Afghanistan with an untreatable lung disease that interferes with their ability to do physical exercise, possibly caused by inhaling toxic material, doctors report.
Next VFW Meeting 8/2 @ 7:30pm
Comrades, I hope to see as many of you as possible at the next meeting. That will be August 2nd at 1930 hours. Lots to talk about and a bunch of plans to make. District 2 meeting will be in November at our post so plan to attend!
TBI Raises Dementia Risk, Study Finds
A large study in older veterans raises fresh concern about mild brain injuries that hundreds of thousands of troops have suffered from explosions in recent wars. Even concussions seem to raise the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease or other dementia later in life, researchers found.
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