April 14, 2010

NVF Dedicated to Correcting Law Unfairly Barring Veterans' VA Claims

Friday, at a San Diego reception for U.S. Congressman and Chairman of the House Committee on Veterans Affairs Bob Filner, National Veterans Foundation (NVF) President Shad Meshad hand delivered a letter to the congressman. 

The letter urged Chairman Filner to introduce legislation to correct a horrifying, unintended consequence of a 2007 Supreme Court decision that is preventing Veterans from filing their benefit claims and appeals. 

“The true irony and heartbreak of this law,” wrote Meshad, “is that those Veterans who will have the most difficulty navigating the legal and benefit systems, like those former soldiers suffering from PTSD or Traumatic Brain Injury, are some of the men and women who most need the services they are being denied.”

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