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Veterans Affairs committee Thank you very much.
March 11th, 2009Committee meeting
Leigh Ann Skeens
Veterans Affairs committee Yes, we do. In conjunction with the Department of Defense, the Department of Veterans Affairs offers transition assistance program briefings. All service members who are getting ready to retire or to be discharged from service are afforded an opportunity to go to those briefings
March 11th, 2009Committee meeting
Leigh Ann Skeens
Veterans Affairs committee With respect to the percentage of veterans...I'm trying to see if I have that number with me. I don't have an exact percentage of those in independent living programs, but I can certainly get that information to you.
March 11th, 2009Committee meeting
Leigh Ann Skeens
Veterans Affairs committee Yes, that is the situation here as well. That's something we have worked hard on with our vocational rehab program, as well as with the Veterans Health Administration, to encourage those veterans who are coming back with severe disabilities to get some readjustment counselling.
March 11th, 2009Committee meeting
Leigh Ann Skeens
Veterans Affairs committee I'm not sure if you're familiar with how we do this. We have a formula to compute those. If a veteran is 20% for a condition, 10% for a condition, and 30% for another condition, there's a formula we have that allows us to.... They don't add together strictly as 20, 10, and 30, bu
March 11th, 2009Committee meeting
Leigh Ann Skeens
Veterans Affairs committee Yes, sir. If you are rated permanent and totally disabled from your disabilities, you can be eligible for pension. You still have to meet the income threshold, however, which is relatively low for veterans who are working full time or even part time. The instance that you presen
March 11th, 2009Committee meeting
Leigh Ann Skeens
Veterans Affairs committee With your hearing aids, the health administration has a program specifically for hearing and hearing aids and Ms. Patterson can cover that. From a pension perspective, if you're over 65 and you're determined to have a disability that makes you permanently and totally disabled so
March 11th, 2009Committee meeting
Leigh Ann Skeens
Veterans Affairs committee Yes, sir.
March 11th, 2009Committee meeting
Leigh Ann Skeens
Veterans Affairs committee Before this new GI bill that's going to be in effect August 1, 2009, it wouldn't necessarily go away. This program is going to continue, so a veteran who is in the reserves but who is called up as part of a national emergency or wartime period would still be eligible for this ben
March 11th, 2009Committee meeting
Leigh Ann Skeens
Veterans Affairs committee On your first question, concerning death benefits, the veteran's service will determine the amount of the death benefits a family receives. If the veteran had a service-related disability for which he was receiving benefits and he died from that particular disability, then his sp
March 11th, 2009Committee meeting
Leigh Ann Skeens
Veterans Affairs committee The medical centres are administered under the health administration, so that again would fall under Ms. Patterson. As far as benefits are concerned, if a veteran is in the hospital or anything, the benefits still continue. We don't have any sort of limit on that. If they're in
March 11th, 2009Committee meeting
Leigh Ann Skeens
Veterans Affairs committee The second part of the question, I believe, was about how we rate disabilities for service connection. We have what we call a rating schedule of disabilities, and it is broken down by parts of the body. It's also broken down by body systems. I'm trying to think quickly of somet
March 11th, 2009Committee meeting
Leigh Ann Skeens
Veterans Affairs committee Yes, Ma'am, there is an appeal process. Once a decision is made, a veteran or a beneficiary has up to a year from the date of the decision notification to come in and file an appeal for an increase in benefits.
March 11th, 2009Committee meeting
Leigh Ann Skeens
Veterans Affairs committee We have a lot of specific outreach that we do to veterans, and the health administration has some specific programs geared toward homeless veterans and to getting them off the streets. Ms. Patterson can speak more specifically to those. As far as benefits are concerned, we try
March 11th, 2009Committee meeting
Leigh Ann Skeens
Veterans Affairs committee To be eligible for our disability pension program a veteran has to have 90 days of active duty. One of those days has to be in a war-time period as prescribed by law, and once they meet that threshold they also have to meet an income threshold. Under our current pension income li
March 11th, 2009Committee meeting
Leigh Ann Skeens