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The U.S. Senate passed a measure over the weekend that supporters say will return money to the pockets of more than 150 combat-injured veterans in Arkansas. The Combat-Injured Veterans Tax Fairness Act of 2016 directs the U.S. Department of Defense to stop taxing the severance payments of veterans who sustained service-ending combat injuries. Under federal law, those payments should not be taxed, but about $78 million in taxes have been levied due to problems with the Defense Department's automated payment system, according to the National Veterans Legal Services Program. [more]
Released 12/13/16 | Tags:
The Senate sent legislation to the White House to pay back combat-injured veterans who were improperly taxed. It directs the Defense Department to identify injured veterans who had their severance payments taxed, and find out how much they are owed. The National Veterans Legal Services Program estimates nearly 14,000 veterans lost money as a result of wrongful taxation. [more]
Released 12/13/16 | Tags:
The U.S. House of Representatives on Monday passed a bill authored by Congressman David Rouzer (NC-9) to provide every veteran who has had their severance payments wrongfully taxed the opportunity to recover the payment in full. [more]
Released 12/6/16 | Tags:
Compassion for veterans with less-than-fully-honorable discharges, known colloquially as “bad paper,” has never been politically popular. This fall, Congress and President Barack Obama must have the courage to ensure the Fairness for Veterans Act becomes law and to initiate reform of the review boards of the armed services. [more]
Released 11/14/16 | Tags: Congressional Legislation, Discharge Upgrades
Veterans group says Pentagon wrongly withheld taxes from combat-injured vets. Proposed legislation could correct the problem for thousands. [more]
Released 11/10/16 | Tags: Congressional Legislation
A recent $10,000 grant award to the West Virginia University College of Law’s Veterans Advocacy Clinic will aid in its mission to serve the approximately 170,000 veterans in the state, the clinic's director said during a recent interview. [more]
Released 10/28/16 | Tags: Veteran's Benefits
The 10 cents a page that most people are charged to view documents in Pacer, an online database of papers filed by litigants in the US federal courts, doesn’t sound like much. But critics of the setup say this cost is just the beginning. Pacer, which stands for Public Access to Court Electronic Records, is a clunky system that doesn’t allow users to search for court papers by their content or look up filings across the web of district, bankruptcy, and circuit courts that make up the federal judiciary. And there’s little that outside developers can do about it. [more]
Released 10/14/16 | Tags: Class Actions
Veterans throughout the state will benefit from a $10,000 donation to the West Virginia University College of Law from a veterans legal organization based in Washington, DC. [more]
Released 10/11/16 | Tags: Veteran's Benefits
The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Veterans' Affairs is demanding answers from the Department of Veterans Affairs about the systems and processes in place to prevent people from receiving benefits they are not entitled to after findings from a 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS investigation. NVLSP attorney and veteran Tom Moore is interviewed. [more]
Released 9/21/16 | Tags: Veteran's Benefits
NVLSP attorney and Navy veteran Rick Spataro was interviewed by Legal Talk Network for their podcast on assisting veterans and the legal issues they face, along with Robert Liscord of Pine Tree Legal Assistance. They discuss the daily legal issues facing veterans and how the legal community is making strides in assisting #veterans. [more]
Released 9/19/16 | Tags: Staff, Veteran's Benefits