— House Veterans’ Affairs Committee Ranking Member Mark Takano (D-CA), Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee Ranking Member Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Development Committee Ranking Member Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) pressed Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary Doug Collins to immediately reverse his decision to abruptly end the Veterans Affairs Servicing Purchase Program (VASP)—a VA program that helped veterans experiencing severe financial hardship avoid for… Read More
— Today, House Veterans' Affairs Committee Ranking Member Mark Takano issued the following statement in response to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary Doug Collins’s announcement that VA plans to end the Veterans Affairs Servicing Purchase (VASP) program. The VASP program was designed to assist veterans and active-duty servicemembers with VA-guaranteed home loans facing foreclosure.
“Secretary Collins and Chairman Bost have repeatedly assured the public that no veterans’ benefits… Read More
— Today, House Veterans' Affairs Committee Ranking Member Mark Takano issued the following statement in response to President Trump’s Executive Order ending union rights for countless federal employees, including Veterans Affairs employees.
“The right to join a labor union and the right to collective bargaining are foundational American principles. This Executive Order, effectively outlawing unions and unilaterally striking down collective bargaining agreements under the guise of unexplained ‘… Read More
VA's "GI Bill College Comparison Tool" - https://www.vets.gov/gi-bill-comparison-tool
DoE's "College Scorecard" - https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/
Veteran Education Success Top Ten Tips for student veterans - https://veteranseducationsuccess.org/top-ten-tips/
American Association of Community Colleges' reliable, non-profit, community college search engine - https://www.aacc.nche.edu/Pages/CCFinder.aspx… Read More
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced today that it plans to propose expanded disability compensation eligibility for Veterans exposed to contaminated drinking water while assigned to Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune.
From 1953 to 1987, water sources at the base were contaminated with industrial solvents that are correlated with certain health conditions. Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert A. McDonald decided to propose presumptions of service connection for certain conditions as… Read More
The unemployment rate for veterans dropped to a seven-year low in August, and the rate for Iraq and Afghanistan war-era veterans fell to the lowest level since federal officials started tracking that population.
The news came the same day that Bureau of Labor Statistics officials announced the national unemployment rate in August had dropped to its lowest level since 2008, before President Obama took office.
Analysts have cautioned against making long-term assumptions based on the monthly … Read More
