Florida Vets-cities For

[Berta]

Feb 25th Pensacola at American Legion Post # 33

1401 West Intendencia

Individual claims interviews 10- 2 PM

Feb 27th,28th Orlando Fla - Amercian Legion Post # 286

Pine Castle Memorial

10- to 4 PM

March- Tampa, Gainseville,Jacksonville,West Palm-Fla

Savannah and Atlanta Georgia

April Ft.Lauderdale and Ft. Myers, May New York City

(more will be added to the stops eventually)

Any low income veteran ($20,400 P/A or less inc VA comp SSA) needing the assistance or help of these lawyers regarding their VA claims

can fill out an intake form on line before going to the post-

and find out what types of claims help these pro bono lawyers offer.

http://www.law.udmercy.edu/academics/vetclinic/nat_tour.php

I will post here as soon as they determine when and where they will be for March.

In San Antonio last week (this is a very new program) they expected maybe 40=50 vets and got over 200 veterans-

if you know of any lawyer who would like to offer assistance pro bono to this program for veterans and be willing to take the legal seminar-

regarding vets benefits in 38 CFR 38 CFR-please refer them to this above site.

Edited February 21, 2008 by Berta

[RSG]

Are there any of these meetings in the northwest?

[Berta]

Project Salute is new and overwhelmed already by the need they see for their services-

If you contact them at

http://www.law.udmercy.edu/academics/vetclinic/nat_tour.php

they would be able to tell you when they anticipate getting to the North Western states.

They only have one van to accomodate the traveling lawyers which was donated to them by General Motors- so

it might take them some time to reach every state- and hopefully they will get more pro bono lawyers involved as well as maybe more grants or donations to be able to secure more vans.

[Berta]

Ps -they do have lawyers and law students who help with the claims at the University-

the Mobile Van can only directly handle a limited numbers of vets one to one at each stop and then they obtain contact info for the other vets and the law school contacts them about their claims.

Also they are doing a lot of out reach to homeless veterans at shelters and Stand Downs etc-

the lawyer last night at SVR said 70% of the homeless vets they see are Vietnam veterans-

luckily many homeless veterans do have cell phones-

I imagine they do as a safety measure and they certainly need a means of contact for these lawyers-

This program hopes to grow Nationally and expand to every state-which will take some time.

and more lawyers.

[Berta]

Ps -they do have lawyers and law students who help with the claims at the University-

the Mobile Van can only directly handle a limited numbers of vets one to one at each stop and then they obtain contact info for the other vets and the law school contacts them about their claims.

Also they are doing a lot of out reach to homeless veterans at shelters and Stand Downs etc-

the lawyer last night at SVR said 70% of the homeless vets they see are Vietnam veterans-

luckily many homeless veterans do have cell phones-

I imagine they do as a safety measure and they certainly need a means of contact for these lawyers-

This program hopes to grow Nationally and expand to every state-which will take some time.

and more lawyers.and more money.