VSO Talk Radio

CRSC: Combat-Related Special Compensation provides tax-free payments to retired Veterans with combat-related disabilities. You must apply for CRSC through your uniformed service.

Starting January 31, 2025 My HeatheVet users will no longer be able to sing in with their current user ID and password.  
New Compensation amounts for 2025

Ancillary benefits are secondary benefits that the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) may provide to veterans, dependents, and survivors: benefits

Chapter 35 of the VA benefits program, also known as the Dependents' Educational Assistance (DEA) program, provides education and training opportunities for dependents of veterans

What it takes to be a VSO

This week on #𝗩𝗦𝗢𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸𝗥𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗼 #𝘃𝘀𝗼𝘁𝗿  we talk all things ChampVA.

ChampVA is a health care program that helps eligible family members of veterans pay for certain health care services and supplies: spouses, widowers, and children. 

Interested in free tickets to concerts, and sporting events, or admissions to Parks?  This is the show for you. 

This week on #𝗩𝗦𝗢𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸𝗥𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗼 #𝘃𝘀𝗼𝘁𝗿  we talk With Jason Burgener, the Director of Veterans Services for Eastern Hampden County Veterans’ Service District and Hailee Fullen, Director of Veterans Services for the Town of Auburn. 

The Veterans Benefits Continuity and Accountability Supplemental Appropriations Act would ensure the VA has enough funding to keep paying veterans’ compensation, pension and readjustment benefits for the rest of fiscal 2024.
Without a solution on the funding gap by Sept. 20, some benefits checks to veterans and dependents could be delayed in October.

This week we talk with Veterans Assistance Commission of Lake County Superintendent
Andrew Tangen, JD, MBA, MS. Andrew 
served in the US Navy, where he deployed eight times in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom, and the Global War on Terrorism, attaining the rank of Lieutenant Commander during his service. He has led the VACLC since May 17, 2017.