Chairman of House Committee on Veterans Affairs Meets with Members of SVU

This past weekend I had the opportunity to be introduced to Cong. Bob Filner of District 51 who is the Chair of the House Committee on Veterans Affairs. He spoke at the Mesa ASG Leadership Retreat of which, 7 veteran students were in attendance. His office has contacted me in regards to setting up a meeting of so we can further discuss veteran issues facing the state.

From Left: Tyller Williamson (VP of ASG), Cong. Bob Filner, Mason Walker (President of ASG), and Josh Ray (VP of SVU/Senator, Mesa ASG).

GET STRAIGHT ANSWERS ABOUT YOUR VETERANS BENEFITS.

CONTACT: LeRoy Acosta FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

619-299-6916 Ext 7105 October 5, 2009

Escondido – A Veteran’s Information Seminar conducted by the Disabled American Veterans (DAV) will occur at 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, October 13, 2009. The DAV Thomas Durbin Chapter #70 is hosting this seminar which will occur at the Veterans Memorial Building, 230 E Park Ave Escondido CA 92025.

The DAV provides outreach to its program services to the American people in general and to Disabled American Veterans specifically. Part of their outreach activities involves DAV's Veterans Information Seminars. This program is designed to educate disabled veterans and their families on specific veterans' benefits and services.

This outreach program generates considerable claims work on behalf of veterans and their families. The job of the NSO is to seek out veterans, to discover if they have a claim, and to follow that claim through to a successful conclusion.

Highly trained members of DAV’s National Service Officer Corps conduct these seminars. These experts in veterans’ benefits offer the best counseling and claim filing assistance you and your family can get. This exceptional service is available to you free of charge and you do NOT need to be a DAV member to take advantage of this service.

The 1.2 million-member Disabled American Veterans, a non-profit organization founded in 1920 and chartered by the U.S. Congress in 1932, represents this nation’s disabled veterans. It is dedicated to a single purpose: building better lives for our nation’s disabled veterans and their families. For more information, visit the organization’s Web site www.DAV.org.

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New fiscal year begins with no new VA budget

1) New fiscal year begins with no new VA budget

Congress failed to pass a Veterans Affairs Department Budget on time for the 20th time in the past 23 years. A legislative appropriations bill was passed Wednesday and sent to the White House. It included a continuing resolution that keeps VA and other federal agencies running through Oct. 31 by providing temporary funding. IAVA Executive Director Paul Rieckhoff expressed concern to the Army Times and in a statement release by IAVA stating that delays like this hurt veterans because hospitals and clinics — unsure of how long temporary funding might last — often fall back on rationing care. The budget that has yet to pass does contain a new provision that aims to avoid disruptions like this in the future by preventing any disruption in veterans funding if Congress fails to pass a budget. Unfortunately, it has no impact on the presently stalled budget.