The National Veterans Legal Services Program recently launched the first of its kind application for use by military veterans and their advocates, available for download through the NVLSP website, Apple App Store or Google Play Store. [more]
Released 7/12/18 | Tags: Veteran's Benefits
More than 130,000 U.S. veterans who were released from service due to injuries sustained in combat are due substantial federal income tax refunds because of a Department of Defense error that stretched on for decades. [more]
Released 7/12/18 | Tags: Congressional Legislation
NVLSP recently launched the first-of-its-kind app for use by military veterans and their advocates, available for download through the NVLSP website, Apple App Store or Google Play Store. [more]
Released 7/9/18 | Tags: Military Sexual Trauma, Veteran's Benefits
Equal Justice Works, the leading nonprofit organization committed to mobilizing the next generation of public interest attorneys, today announced its 2018 Class of Equal Justice Works Fellows. Sixty-seven recent law school graduates will launch their public interest law careers through an Equal Justice Works Fellowship project of their own design. Jenna Goldberg will create a Medical-Legal Partnership in support of veterans' applications for benefits before military correction boards and the VA. A graduate of Duke University School of Law, Jenna will be hosted at the National Veterans Legal Services Program in Washington, D.C. She is co-sponsored by Lockheed Martin Corporation and Hogan Lovells US LLP. [more]
Released 6/20/18 | Tags: Staff
In this second article of a three-part series, The American Legion Magazine examines the long fight to provide health care and benefits for veterans exposed to Agent Orange – a battle that continues for many former servicemembers who are suffering the consequences of the massive toxic herbicide campaign without help from VA. [more]
Released 6/20/18 | Tags: Agent Orange
While the VA acknowledges a link between exposure to Agent Orange and cancers such as Hodgkin’s disease, multiple myeloma and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, it says the evidence isn’t there for esophageal cancer and 34 other diseases that Vietnam veterans have sought to have added to the list of recognized, service-related illnesses. [more]
Released 5/26/18 | Tags: Agent Orange
Since their first encounter with nuclear weapons tests in the 1940s, U.S. servicemembers have been exposed to atomic radiation, toxic defoliants and choking burn pits, among other contaminations that, while slower-acting, are often just as lethal as bullets and bombs. In each of these situations, the government response to afflicted veterans’ needs for information, acknowledgment and health care has been even slower – decades of denial, followed by begrudging but limited acceptance and bureaucratic skepticism. The American Legion has been at the forefront of advocating on behalf of these veterans, from the Legion service officer in Iowa who helped Orville Kelly win the first atomic veteran’s claim, to the continuing fight for Agent Orange benefits and today’s work on behalf of post-9/11 veterans. [more]
Released 5/21/18 | Tags: Agent Orange
The National Veterans Legal Services Program (NVLSP and on Facebook) is offering a free online app for veterans at http://app.nvlsp.org. It is designed to help veterans and their advocates identify the VA disability benefits to which they may be entitled. By answering a series of questions, the specific disability benefits claims that could be filed with the VA are identified. The app is available through the Apple app store and Google Play. [more]
Released 5/18/18 | Tags: Veteran's Benefits
The National Veterans Legal Services Program (NVLSP and on Facebook) is offering a free online app for veterans at http://app.nvlsp.org. It is designed to help veterans and their advocates identify the VA disability benefits to which they may be entitled. By answering a series of questions, the specific disability benefits claims that could be filed with the VA are identified. The app is available through the Apple app store and Google Play. [more]
Released 5/18/18 | Tags: Veteran's Benefits
Nicole Cogswell’s dreams unraveled three years ago in a sick hall in Fort Lee, Virginia. You’re done, she recalled an Army doctor telling her. Her military career was over. She should be discharged. [more]
Released 4/30/18 | Tags: Veteran's Benefits