Veterans Benefits In Veterans

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Veterans Benefits Isn’t it great to be a Veteran? The benefits are nearly endless! I don’t know of any other institution or organization that goes to such great measures to care for and protect their military families. Let us begin from the date of separation from military service. The VA offers a Transition Assistance Program with Benefits Advisors at nearly every military installation who facilitate benefit briefings, so service members and their families are aware of the benefits earned and how best to utilize them. Naturally, there are stipulations and time frames that must be followed to apply and or retain those benefits. Thus, it is very important that service members attend a benefit briefing as crucial benefits could be lost…show more content…
As I remarked in the introduction, the military takes care of their own. The VA offers a VA Pension for wartime veterans with low monthly incomes who are over 65 or disabled which provides them a supplemental income. They also provide VA Disability Compensation to service members who have a disease or injury that was incurred or aggravated during active duty. Additionally, the surviving spouse, children, or parent of service members who lost their life while on active duty or who died from a service-related disability, are eligible for Dependent and Indemnity Compensation (DIC). And for service members who need special care for a service-related disability (like the loss of a limb) they may be eligible for Special Monthly Compensation for Aid and Attendance (SMC). There are other special circumstances with other types of disability that compensation is available such as unemployability, auto allowances, clothing allowances, pre-stabilization, hospitalization, convalescence, dental and birth defect…show more content…
And once again the VA has come to the rescue providing Transition Assistance (TAP) through a joint effort by the Dept. of Defense, the Dept. of Labor, and the Dept. of Veterans Affairs which helps service-connected disabled veterans find suitable careers and if interested they will assist them with a small business start-up of their own. And we can’t forget the Veterans Opportunity to Work programs that provide tax credits to employers for hiring veterans and the program also covers job training and Extended Job Readiness Assistance. Truthfully, there are too many support groups and support services to list as there is a group for every type of veteran and basically for every need they may possibly have. In review, the VA has helped us stay healthy, stay housed, stay educated, stay employed, and has kept veterans from living in poverty, but what happens when all that comes to an
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