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twitterSupport for Veterans and Military Families in the 2009 Stimulus Proposal
Posted by Michelle McCarthy on February 2
The economic stimulus package, or “The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009,” currently includes a number of provisions that will help our nation’s veterans weather the economic storm. For a full summary of how veterans fare in the new Stimulus Proposal, download "Support for Veterans and Military Families in the 2009 Stimulus Proposal".
In addition to supporting the Senate version of the Stimulus Proposal, IAVA recommends new measures that will support America's veterans and will stimulate the economy, including:
- Retroactive payments to help cover the student loans of veterans serving after September 11th who attended college under the previous ineffective GI Bill.
- New funding to triple the number of OEF/OIF outreach coordinators employed at VA facilities.
- Increased grant funding to hire more state and county service officers who help veterans file their disability claims. This will shorten claim approval wait times and support disabled veterans.
- Funding for programs that provide job training for homeless women veterans and homeless veterans with children. This recommendation was initially proposed by Representative Buyer (R-IN), but it was not included in the House version of the stimulus package.
Click here to read the press release issued by IAVA recommending critical additions to the Stimulus Bill.
To find out how you can help send veterans to meet with national lawmakers next week on Capitol Hill as part of IAVA’s fourth annual Storm the Hill campaign, click here.
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Comments
I feel your organization still is not helping to address the problem of guard and reserve members that loose thier business(s) due to longterm deployments. According to the CBO 35000 reservists in 2003 alone faced hardships to their business's. Reservists like me return and find they have no cash to restart and find it difficult to gain employment by other companies. Grants or loans given to veteranins to buy existing businesses of to start a new one would serve the country better than handing more cash to banks that are not giving out loans. (the patriot loan is a joke no bank in most states offer it because the feds make the interest too low for banks that want 10+percent on loans) Further more when you call the SBA about it they claim to not know about the loan system anyway. My last guard contract was up in 2006. I was self employed from 1997 to 2003 when deployed and everywhere i apply i get "no experience" or "over qualified" I have heard it over and over from other vets that they have had the same issue. As for your retro student loan repayment. Ive paid off 40k in student loans would i expect under your plan to get a check from the feds for 40k? How do you go about proving you paid the loans or even howmuch loans you had? do you simply assume an average # and have them send all persons who recieved MGIB payments since 2001?
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