Today's news from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.):
VA Claims Backlog: Veterans have to wait more than nine months before they begin receiving monthly checks to offset the lost salary and costs from the injuries they’ve sustained. The backlogged claims — those that have been around for at least 125 days — totaled 588,724 as of Thursday, accounting for 69 percent of all the pending claims nationwide. “More and more veterans, younger veterans, are coming into the VA system,” Sen. Bernie Sanders, the chairman of the Senate Veterans Committee, said in a recent interview with the Valley News.
Chairman Sanders: The tousled-haired 71-year-old Vermont independent who took over the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs in January has embraced the role with a populist gusto that has won him staunch backing from veterans groups, according to a Washington Post report published by the Seattle Times. “He’s very passionate about the issues,” said Bob Wallace, ...executive director of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. “I think he’s going to be very good for veterans.”
Thank You Sen. Sanders: Sen. Sanders “knows that veterans and seniors earned their benefits through hard work and sacrifice. So when politicians in Washington proposed cutting Social Security and veterans’ benefits Sen. Sanders stood up for us,” according to a full-page ad by AARP in the Burlington Free Press.
Continue reading here: http://www.sanders.senate.gov/
Today's news from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.):
VA Claims Backlog: Veterans have to wait more than nine months before they begin receiving monthly checks to offset the lost salary and costs from the injuries they’ve sustained. The backlogged claims — those that have been around for at least 125 days — totaled 588,724 as of Thursday, accounting for 69 percent of all the pending claims nationwide. “More and more veterans, younger veterans, are coming into the VA system,” Sen. Bernie Sanders, the chairman of the Senate Veterans Committee, said in a recent interview with the Valley News.
Chairman Sanders: The tousled-haired 71-year-old Vermont independent who took over the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs in January has embraced the role with a populist gusto that has won him staunch backing from veterans groups, according to a Washington Post report published by the Seattle Times. “He’s very passionate about the issues,” said Bob Wallace, ...executive director of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. “I think he’s going to be very good for veterans.”
Thank You Sen. Sanders: Sen. Sanders “knows that veterans and seniors earned their benefits through hard work and sacrifice. So when politicians in Washington proposed cutting Social Security and veterans’ benefits Sen. Sanders stood up for us,” according to a full-page ad by AARP in the Burlington Free Press.
Continue reading here: http://www.sanders.senate.gov/
VA Claims Backlog: Veterans have to wait more than nine months before they begin receiving monthly checks to offset the lost salary and costs from the injuries they’ve sustained. The backlogged claims — those that have been around for at least 125 days — totaled 588,724 as of Thursday, accounting for 69 percent of all the pending claims nationwide. “More and more veterans, younger veterans, are coming into the VA system,” Sen. Bernie Sanders, the chairman of the Senate Veterans Committee, said in a recent interview with the Valley News.
Chairman Sanders: The tousled-haired 71-year-old Vermont independent who took over the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs in January has embraced the role with a populist gusto that has won him staunch backing from veterans groups, according to a Washington Post report published by the Seattle Times. “He’s very passionate about the issues,” said Bob Wallace, ...executive director of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. “I think he’s going to be very good for veterans.”
Thank You Sen. Sanders: Sen. Sanders “knows that veterans and seniors earned their benefits through hard work and sacrifice. So when politicians in Washington proposed cutting Social Security and veterans’ benefits Sen. Sanders stood up for us,” according to a full-page ad by AARP in the Burlington Free Press.
Continue reading here: http://www.sanders.senate.gov/
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