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Employment, Medical Issues / Disability, Mental Health, News and Press, PTSD
Kristina Derro Veteran Advocate The wars in Iraqa and Afghanistan have dragged on for over a decade now. Since 2001, the U.S. has sent more than 2.2 million troops to battle, more than 6,600 were killed, and 50,000 were injured. This is a dismal reality of war. However, the strides that have been made in […]
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Claims Processing, News and Press
Jim Fausone Veteran Disability Attorney VA has been under tremendous criticism for the backlog of claims that it has which is approaching 1,000,000 this year. Congress has been holding hearings on how to clear up the backlog. Heads may actually roll at VA over this embarrassment. So VA has to resolve the new claims being […]
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Medical Issues / Disability, News and Press, Veterans Law
Jim Fausone Veteran Advocate To help further protect their veterans, lawmakers in Nevada have put forth a bill that makes veteran disability pay untouchable in divorce proceedings. The bill, AB271, was presented to members of the Assembly Judiciary Committee on Tuesday and specifies that during divorce settlements, judges cannot consider veteran disability pay when dividing […]
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Employment, Medical Issues / Disability, News and Press
A nonprofit is working to connect returning vets with innovative investors and new companies. A new nonprofit organization based in Milwaukee, with funds from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ innovation initiative, is supporting entrepreneurial vets. “Veterans often are educated in the most cutting-edge technologies available,” stated veterans disability attorney James Fausone. “And they have […]
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Employment, News and Press
Jim Fausone Veteran Advocate The unemployment problem in the country has been the focus of commentary for the last few years. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unemployment rate for female veterans was 8.8% in January 2013, compared to 7.5% for men and 7.7% for female civilians. And with an unemployment rate of […]
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News and Press, Veterans Law
Winchester Consulting Group is a full service government relations company. Winchester Consulting Group is looking for opportunities to work with and promote Vet-centric groups. They are currently working with The Veteran Advocate LLC, an SDVOB/Woman owned business run by Brigadier General Carol Ann Fausone (ret.) regarding assisting veterans in Wayne county. Winchester Consulting Group is […]
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News and Press
Jim Fausone Veterans Disability Lawyer In 2008, two vets pooled their military disability payments to launch Purple Heart Homes, a nonprofit company which modifies or helps work on homes for disabled vets on the East Coast. Dale Beatty, a vet with prosthetic legs from his time in combat in Iraq, spent a year recovering at […]
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Claims Processing, News and Press
Jim Fausone Veteran Advocate The Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Eric Shinseki, explained this past week that he is committed to ending the backlog of claims by 2015. His plan to do that? Replace paper records with electronic records. Right now, VA considers about 600,000 claims, or 70 percent, to be “backlogged”. These are the number […]
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News and Press
James Fausone Veteran Advocate While the $85 billion in automatic cuts that will affect the federal budget are in pace as part of the ongoing sequester, a little-known ripple effect of those cuts include planned demonstrations by the Air Force’s Thunderbirds and the Navy’s Blue Angels, according to officials. Though the Blue Angels are scheduled […]
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Employment, News and Press
James Fausone Veterans Disability Lawyer Unemployment for post-9/11 veterans continues to be at high levels. The recent numbers confirm what many military unemployment specialists have suspected: unemployment rates for younger vets continues to outpace the numbers for unemployed civilians. Almost one in 10 returned members from Iraqand Afghanistanis unemployed. The latest numbers by the U.S. […]
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