Department of Veterans UPDATED: tUESDAY, APRIL 13, 2010
Federal Benefits for Veterans, Dependents and Survivors
2010 Edition
Vets Health Care Bill Passes Senate
Week of March 29, 2010
The U.S. Senate recently passed the Caregivers and Veterans Omnibus Health Services Act of 2009. The legislation would strengthen support for caregivers and attendants of veterans and would help ensure veterans in need of institutional care have the choice of receiving care from a family member at home. This bill would provide caregivers of veterans with health care, counseling, support, and a stipend. It also expands services in rural areas and ensures that veterans who are catastrophically disabled or who need emergency care in the community are not inappropriately charged for those services. The bill moves on to the House of Representatives.
2010 EditionVA NEWS
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THE AMERICAN VETERAN
Monthly video magazine featuring important veterans issues.
"The American Veteran" tells the stories of service and sacrifice made by America's
men and women in uniform and discusses some of the benefits they have earned.
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To Serve California's Veterans & their Families.
More specifically, to provide California veterans and their families with aid and assistance in presenting their claims for veterans' benefits under the laws of the United States; to provide them with beneficial opportunities through direct low-cost loans to acquire farms and homes; and to provide the state's aged or disabled veterans with rehabilitative, residential, and medical care and services in a home-like environment at the California Veterans Homes.
This mission is based upon the philosophy that programs of benefits for veterans fulfill necessary, proper, and valid public purposes by promoting patriotism, by recognizing and rewarding sacrifice and service to country, and by providing needed readjustment assistance to returning veterans and their families, whose lives were interrupted when they responded to their country's call to military service.
