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		<title>Pro-bono legal services for low income veterans</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cory Walsh]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2016 21:15:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Attorney General Mark R. Herring has announced that a pro-bono Veterans Legal Services Clinic for low income veterans will take place in November. It will take place on November 17th at the Petersburg Freedom Support Center, located at 32 West Washington Street, Petersburg, Virginia 23803. During the daylong event, volunteer attorneys from Attorney General Herring’s [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>VA Failing American Veterans Aid Appeals</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cory Walsh]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2016 11:16:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[White House officials are pushing Congress to amend and improve, if not completely overhaul the appeals process for American veterans aid appeals for benefit claims this year, noting the shrinking legislative window and calling the system a disaster. “This process is failing veterans,&#8221; said Veterans Affairs Deputy Secretary Sloan Gibson. &#8220;Nobody can defend the status [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Trump on Veterans Programs</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cory Walsh]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2016 18:56:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[His recent speech In Virginia was Donald Trump on veterans programs.  It was the latest in a series of prepared remarks aimed at articulating his policy agenda and convincing still-reticent Republicans that he has the discipline and control to mount a credible general election bid against Hillary Clinton. Trump, the presumptive GOP nominee, was in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>American Veterans Complaints About Response Time</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cory Walsh]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2016 13:53:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[VA backlogs and wait times are a consistent  cause for American Veterans complaints. Vets in need of care  cite long waits at the VA.  Currently there are more than 70,000 veteran disability claims that are backlogged in Veterans Affairs processing centers, seven months after department officials missed their public goal of getting the number down [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Homeless Veterans Numbers Down by Half</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cory Walsh]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2016 10:15:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The good news is that the number of homeless veterans in America is down significantly since 2010. According to HUD and the VA the number is 47% overall and some states are even better than that.  Minnesota reports homelessness is down 57% for veterans there. HUD’s annual Point-in-Time (PIT) estimate of America’s homeless population, communities [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Aid for Older American Veterans with TBI</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cory Walsh]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2016 13:47:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Studies on American veterans with TBI &#8211; traumatic brain injury &#8211; reveal that they may be at greater risk for developing dementia later in life. One such study published in July 2014 issue of Neurology, examined more than 188,000 American Veterans over the age of 55 for nine years. During that time, 16 percent of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>American Veterans Benefits and Incarceration</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cory Walsh]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2016 14:44:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Some 700 000 American Veterans are incarcerated in jails or prisons.  Many of them are there because of PTSD and substance abuse.  When a vet is found guilty of a crime and sentenced to a penal system, some of the benefits get adjusted.  However, according a Watchdog report found that more than $100 million has [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>American Veterans Benefits Bill Preserves Housing Preference</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cory Walsh]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2016 13:22:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; A compromise version of an American Veterans Benefits Bill passed by both branches of the state Legislature recently, ensured that the boards of trustees for soldiers&#8217; homes in Holyoke and Chelsea, Massachusetts, would remain outside the control of a new state office, as would the daily operations of those facilities. The bill (H 4285) [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>American Veteran Suicides &#8211; the True Cost of War</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cory Walsh]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2016 16:27:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; According to new data released by the Department of Veterans Affairs the number of veteran suicides is 20 a day &#8211; not the much-quoted 22 a day. It is good to have correct data and the new study includes more than 50 million veterans’ records from 1979 to 2014, including every state. According to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Guide to American Veterans Aid for Seniors</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cory Walsh]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2016 11:13:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; There are 22 million veterans in America who are eligible for aid and care. Almost 10 million of them are over the age of 65. (census.gov) and may quality for the American Veterans Senior care benefits. According to the Department of Veterans Affairs, 697,806 American veterans from WWII are still alive, as of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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