The Combat PTSD Act (HR 952)

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Wednesday March 25, 2009 · 11:58 AM PDT

2009/03/25 · 11:58

This bill seeks to end the inequity "non-combat" veterans deployed to war zones must deal with when it comes to a disability claim for PTSD. The COMBAT PTSD Act, introduced by Rep. John Hall, would clarify the phrase "combat with the enemy," for purposes of proof of service-connection for veterans' disability compensation, by including in this definition, deployment "in a theater of combat operations during a period of war; or in combat against a hostile force during a period of hostilities."

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Wednesday March 04, 2009 · 10:56 AM PST

2009/03/04 · 10:56

Workers at a Detroit regional office turned in 16,000 pieces of unprocessed mail and 717 documents turned up in New York in December [2007] during amnesty periods in which workers were promised no one would be penalized.

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Tuesday December 16, 2008 · 11:38 AM PST

2008/12/16 · 11:38

Contrary to a law passed in 1996, the VA has been withholding disability and pension checks issued during the month of a veteran’s death even as the law stated these checks where to be treated "as being payable to a surviving spouse."

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Tuesday October 21, 2008 · 11:55 AM PDT

2008/10/21 · 11:55

Prescription pain killers are routinely being prescribed to service members in massive amounts, some soldiers are prescribed hundreds of pain killer pills per month. Yet when these men and women, who are often combat veterans, become addicted the military prescribes harsh punishments including less than honorable discharges which carry serious implications with regards to veterans' benefits.

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Thursday September 25, 2008 · 3:36 PM PDT

2008/09/25 · 15:36

Vets Under Siege: How America Deceives and Dishonors Those Who Fight Our Battles
By Martin Schram. New York. St. Martin’s Press. 2008.
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Thursday September 04, 2008 · 3:43 PM PDT

2008/09/04 · 15:43

How America really treats its vets.

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