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Post your links and information about state and federal benefits available to disabled veterans.
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It's time to update the old link from TBird stickied in 2007. Let's start with fishing... Before, if you were totally disabled your license was $1.00. Here is the new information for fishing only. Now it is $3.05 for everyone 20% and up. But read carefully... Yeah, that's right. Go where you renew the tags for your car. Don't expect them to know how to issue your discounted them either. It took them 40 minutes, not mentioning the long wait I already spent in line. Bring your VA letter showing you are 20% or more. P&T military ID won't work. They need to see the percentage on the letter from the VA. Also, if you have a disabled veteran t…
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Veterans with a veteran Id card can use public transportation for free in Albuquerque.
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http://www.thefederalregister.com/d.p/2009-12-01-E9-28744 I want to ask everyone who reads this to read, copy and paste it into your browser and send it to your local Television stations as they are trying to sneak it by us. I sent to my local stations. Thanks for the help on this one as we all lose if it gets passed. J
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Thinking of moving to arizona as its on sale..... looked up bennies for 100% disabled vets... one hand it says if your 100% disabled VA you dont have to pay property tax's on house you live in.... but if you make to much money your not allowed to take this bennie.. so what is to much 14,000 a year so if your 100% you dont have to pay tax but if your 100% you make to much money ... confusing or am i just to dumb to read between the lines ???
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Ok, I am not sure where this topic goes, but needed some info regarding a letter I received in the mail after my VA enrollment was approved. It seems that after my VA Health enrollment was approved, I received a letter from Buckley AFB, CO and it contains an ARPC Form 69 (Annual AF Reserve Screening). It states that I must update my status, dependents, address, date of birth, etc.. and if I update any of those items, I must submit marriage cert and birth certificates. If I don't return it, that is a violation of the law. It also states that as a retired active duty member, I can be recalled to active duty for national emergencies, contingencies and brief periods to as…
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Hello Community, I am getting ready to move from a homeless program for veteran's, into an apartment complex where my rent for a studio apartment is $1995 per month... I used to qualify for VASH , but from what I am now being told, the maximum monthly income you are allowed to have is $2900 - and being 100% service connected now - in large part to discovering Had-It - I make 2906 , $6 over VASH limits. So I've heard alot of things about an SSVF program that will help recently homeless vet's with security deposits and rent. Anyone have past experience or good knowledge on this? I was homeless for 3 years before going to jail for 6 mont…
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Appropriations Lapse Plan For Veterans Compensation And Pensions Et Al - Official Link 1 2
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http://www.va.gov/opa/appropriations_lapse_plan.asp This link will help in some ways to explain 'what the deal is' from the Department of Veterans Affairs perspective, if we indeed have even a partial shutdown. Obviously we are all hoping that power players on the Hill will find a way to get business done before major adverse effects follow putting us in a crisis management mode to put it lightly.
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I have just been made P and T back dated on Nov 2016. Since they weren't around I had to use Obamacare for the family and wife had our child this May. Is there a way to recoup those expenses since I didn't have it until I won my claim until today? Will I be approved for my familly now Im alittle impatient for the letter on Thursday I'm trying to get what i need to do since I have an appt at the Wilmington Va RO and Hospital.
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State of Arkansas Department of Veterans Affairs STATE BENEFITS: A. Homestead and Personal Property Tax Exemption: Arkansas Veterans who have been rated, by the VA, as 100% service connected (Permanent and Total) or awarded Special Monthly Compensation for loss or loss of use of one or more limbs total blindness in one or both eyes are entitled to exemption of Homestead and Personal Property Tax. Widows, so long as they do not remarry, dependent children, during their minority, continue this entitlement. Widows, so long as they do not remarry, dependent children, during their minority, are also eligible for this entitlement if the veteran was killed or died in the sco…
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There is a $25 fee for the plate, but all the other fees are waived. The 100% can be schedular or TDUI. The letter you can print out on eBenefits for the commissary privileges and DD 214/215 are all you need. If you buy from an agency or used lot, make sure you take these with you or you will be charged full fees. Nice benefit!
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I have one relative left that I stay in touch with, and his kid is getting married soon. They live in Norfolk, VA. I've booked us into the Cape Henry lodge/resort at Virginia Beach for the weekend of the wedding, and since we have a 14 hour drive down there we were looking for places to stop overnight. Carlisle Barracks would be about half-way, give or take a hundred miles or so, and their website says they have transient lodging available (I know maybe not the day we will be passing through, so we have another hotel in mind if CB has no openings). Has anyone stayed at either of these places? This will be our first stay in Army lodging, except for Edelweiss in …
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Just read this article and thought I should share http://www.jdnews.com/articles/military-102896-attention-need.html
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