Veterans Disability Lawyer
The House of Representatives has passed HR 4057, a
new bill designed to help student veterans. HR 4057 will allow post-9/11 student
vets one comprehensive place online to find information about their
applications for various colleges and institutions, and track any issues that
may arise. The bill instructs the Veterans
Administration to launch a website for this purpose and also to offer
educational counseling to the student vets.
The bill will include education
counseling, extensive information about schools, programs, financing, school
retention and graduation rates, transfer credit opportunities, and what
academic, technical and support services are available to them. The overall
plan to make the Post-9/11 GI Bill easily accessible to all who qualify for it.
The Post-9/11 GI Bill includes
education and housing financial support for military personnel with 90 or more days
of service after September 10, 2001, and for individuals who were discharged
with a service-connected disability after 30 days. Students must have been
honorably discharge in order to receive the benefit the benefit covers as much
as 36 months of expenses if they are education-related and approved, and can be
used as late as 15 years after active duty has ended.
Another veterans-based bill sent
to the President is the Dignified
Burial and other Veterans Benefits Improvement Act of 2012, which allows
provisions for burials for veterans who leave behind few or no resources and no
family members to oversee their burial. The bill includes instruction for a
registry which would track the service-related symptoms and illnesses of vets who
served in Iraq and Afghanistan
Both bills have been designed to
provide support for veterans, from educational opportunities to comprehensive
civilian transition programs to services that allow them burial with dignity.
The Dignity bill authorizes the
VA to: provide a casket or urn, if needed; follow the wishes of next of kin
regarding the funeral or memorial service; claim unclaimed or abandoned veteran
remains for proper burial; use $5 million for a military cemetery in the
Philippines; and establish an "open burn pit registry" to track vets
who were exposed to probable toxic materials from Middle East open burn pits,
and track their ongoing health concerns and explore treatment options. Additionally, the bill authorizes the VA to
provide transportation of vets to and/or from counseling, vocational and
rehabilitation treatment and care.
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