Author: M-VETS

 

By Spring 2017 M-VETS Student-Advisor Larry Lohmann

Last month President Trump signed the Veterans Choice Improvement Act, an extension of the Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act of 2014 or Veterans Choice Act. The Act, originally passed and implemented during the Obama administration, requires hospital care and medical services to be furnished to veterans through agreements with specified non-Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) facilities if the veterans do not live close to VA medical facilities.   Read more

By Spring 2017 M-VETS Student-Advisor Rodger Nayak

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has sought to make it easier for certain veterans stationed at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, between August 1, 1953, and December 31, 1987, to obtain disability compensation.

The VA awards disability compensation benefits to servicemen and women with injuries that were incurred or aggravated during active military service. Read more

By Spring 2017 M-VETS Student-Advisor Rebecca Eubank

When a servicemember is injured on active duty or diagnosed with a condition that leaves him unable to perform his assigned duties, his case is referred to the Integrated Disability Evaluation System (IDES). While this process can be long and at times confusing, knowing the possible outcomes at each step of the process should inform the servicemember’s decisions. Read more

Written By Spring 2017 M-VETS Student-Advisor Anne Kidd.

On December 23, 2016, President Obama signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 (“FY17 NDAA”). The NDAA is an annual occurrence and is one-half of the federal budgetary process for the Department of Defense. Read more