IAVA Joins Pelosi, Lawmakers to Acknowledge Progress on Three Top Issues for Veterans
Posted by Michelle McCarthy on June 17
2009

- VA Funding. A record VA spending increase and progress on Advance Appropriations: Yesterday, the House Appropriations Subcommittee in charge of Military Construction and VA spending approved a landmark budget for the Department of Veterans Affairs. The proposed FY2010 VA budget represents a 15 percent increase over FY2009 levels. The committee also moved forward on a plan to provide advance appropriations for FY2011, IAVA’s top legislative priority for this year.
- Stop-loss. A retroactive stop-loss payment provision passed as part of the 2009 war supplemental bill: The provision would provide up to $5,000 in back-pay to thousands of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans who were held beyond their enlistment contracts before October 2008 under the military’s stop-loss policy.
- The GI Bill. New education benefits for Gold Star families also passed as part of the 2009 war supplemental bill: This education benefit would allow the new GI Bill to be transferred to all children of servicemembers who died while on active-duty since 9/11.
- Click here to read the full press release from IAVA.
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