A veteran comes in from the cold

#Middlebury #Veterans VETERANS POST by Freddy Groves The dormitory veterans had made their way down to the railroad tracks in the woods, battling buffeting winds and sleet. There, it ... Continue Reading →

VA battles COVID-19

#Middlebury #Veterans VETERANS POST by Freddy Groves The Department of Veteran’s Affairs has been battling COVID-19 from the very beginning of the pandemic. The recently released ... Continue Reading →

Full education housing benefits extended

#Middlebury #Veterans VETERANS POST by Freddy Groves If you’re in school and were about to lose half of your VA education housing benefits at the end of last month due to remote ... Continue Reading →

Delayed mailings prompt VA to extend deadlines

#Middlebury #Veterans The Department of Veterans Affairs ran into a big snag with a printing vendor and a lot of notification letters to veterans were delayed. But fear not – the ... Continue Reading →

OIG is VA’s crime dog

#Middlebury #Veterans #OIG Despite COVID and all the restrictions from it, the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General has been busy. Here are a few of the scams ... Continue Reading →

Buddy Check 22 aids at-risk veterans

#Middlebury #Veterans Buddy Check 22 is an American Legion program that reaches out to possibly at-risk veterans. The “22” in the name is most significant: it is the average number ... Continue Reading →

Boot-camp for veteran-owned businesses

#Middlebury #Veterans Last summer, the Department of Veterans Affairs brought together 80 women veteran business owners for a six-month boot camp hosted by PenFed and the VA Office ... Continue Reading →

Veterans Village opens

#Middlebury #Veterans We were all there the day Veterans Village officially opened: Sarge, the older veterans brought out in a van borrowed from the senior center, the dormitory crew ... Continue Reading →

Veterans service groups are up and running again

#Middlebury #Veterans Is your local Disabled American Veterans (DAV), Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) or American Legion up and running again? Many shut down over the past year due to ... Continue Reading →

VA expands assistance to homeless veterans

#Middlebury #Veterans With prices soaring all around us, imagine how bad it must be in places that already had high costs when it came to rental housing. In an effort to help homeless ... Continue Reading →