Legal Help for Veterans blog.
Claims Processing, Medical Issues / Disability, News and Press
Jim Fausone Veterans Disability Lawyer We talk to hundreds of veterans a month about their VA disability claim status. Many people want to know why it takes so long and when will their case be decided. Well it is not getting any better based on a recent VA report. The delays in processing went up […]
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News and Press
Veterans and current military personnel have a higher rate of traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder than do non-military. According to Peter Gutierrez, the co-director of the Military Suicide Research Consortium in Colorado, individuals with traumatic brain injury or post-traumatic stress disorder are more prone to suicidal and self-harming behaviors. Gutierrez’s consortium has paired […]
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Mental Health, PTSD
Jim Fausone Veterans Disability Lawyer It would be easy to get made about this. But many people feel free to comment that PTSD is not a real condition. I suspect they mean it’s not an “injury” that you can attribute to a single act or event. It is not a sprained knee or back. You […]
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Medical Issues / Disability, News and Press, PTSD
Jim Fausone Veterans Disability Lawyer An underreported problem with female veterans may be PTSD. We see women vets complaining about PTSD when military sexual trauma is involved. However, we do not yet see the expected complaints of PTSD that these wars in general cause. Women vets are leading and driving convoys in the war with […]
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News and Press
The population of recent combat veterans in the U.S. is higher than at any time since the Vietnam era. So it should not be surprising that there seem to be an unprecedented number of veterans running for local and state offices this election cycle. Current candidates include Illinois congressional candidate and Iraqi vet Tammy Duckworth, […]
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Employment, News and Press
Jim Fausone Veteran Advocate New program for veterans…Alpena Community College, Schoolcraft Community College have partnered with DTE Energy, Local 223 of the Utility Workers Union of America, Consumers Energy, the Center for Energy Workforce Development and the Michigan Workforce Intelligence Network to help veterans retrain in a new Natural Gas Boot Camp, a seven-week pilot […]
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News and Press
According to an investigation by American-Statesman, of all the Texas veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan and were receiving disability benefits when they died, a majority accidentally died from drug overdoses or toxic prescription combinations. Information released by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs indicated that almost 350 veterans from Texas with VA benefits […]
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Medical Issues / Disability, News and Press, Veterans Law
Jim Fausone Veteran Advocate Neil Thrasher was sentenced to 17 months to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to two counts of embezzlement from a charitable organization and one count of violation of the charitable solicitation act. According to authorities, Thrasher created two fake charities – Paralyzed American Veterans and Disabled Veterans of American […]
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Employment, Medical Issues / Disability, News and Press, Veterans Law
Jim Fausone Veteran Advocate According to a recent Ninth Circuit opinion, it is not a violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to fire an employee who repeatedly fails to show up for work. It’s amazing that such a question would even have to be decided by a Federal Court of Appeals. In Samper […]
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Veterans Law
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo recently signed legislation to honor veterans. The new law will allow New York state’s Department of Motor Vehicles to add a mark indicating “veteran” status on both driver’s licenses and or non-driver IDs. This legislation allows veterans of the United States Armed Forces to request the veteran status mark on […]
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