Across the nation our veteran’s benefits for serving our country are being diminished due to budget cuts, reforms, and for some their benefits are being taken away completely. When their benefits are cut or taken away it makes living hard, because they have to deal with the small amount of income they get, on top of any physical or mental medical problems they may have gotten from their service in the military. As an example: A currently living veteran was claimed deceased due to a clerical error His family (along with himself) was sent two checks to help with burial costs, Due to the mistake made the departments of Veterans Affairs and Defense his other benefits were terminated as well. This veteran struggles to provide for his small family
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During their service mental and physical problems may occur, and the government has promised them help in the form of benefits in various forms, but “The House Appropriations Subcommittee marked up the 2016 Veterans Affairs funding bill, and slashed more than $1.4 billion from the requested budget for America’s Veterans” that they were promised, affecting their daily lives.
This cut back on veteran benefit funding makes it harder to provide the necessary medical care veterans need by $690 million, and that's just the medical care. This cutback of $582 million dollars also affects the building of much needed health care facilities by eliminating all funding going to it. The cut also eliminates funding for “cemetery expansion projects, reducing the ability to provide burial honors for about 18,000 Veterans and their family members”, every year. These service members were promised certain benefits that are essential for their living.
There are groups of people that are working to fix this problem but it could take a while. The thing to do is to evaluate all assets of funding to see how much money is available to be used for veteran funding programs and secure those funds in a way that there can't be cuts, so that the authorized people can provide the sufficient amount of funds that are promised to each veteran. By doing this the veterans would have a much higher chance of being helped with their physical and mental medical problems, also it would help them with their daily
During their service mental and physical problems may occur, and the government has promised them help in the form of benefits in various forms, but “The House Appropriations Subcommittee marked up the 2016 Veterans Affairs funding bill, and slashed more than $1.4 billion from the requested budget for America’s Veterans” that they were promised, affecting their daily lives.
This cut back on veteran benefit funding makes it harder to provide the necessary medical care veterans need by $690 million, and that's just the medical care. This cutback of $582 million dollars also affects the building of much needed health care facilities by eliminating all funding going to it. The cut also eliminates funding for “cemetery expansion projects, reducing the ability to provide burial honors for about 18,000 Veterans and their family members”, every year. These service members were promised certain benefits that are essential for their living.
There are groups of people that are working to fix this problem but it could take a while. The thing to do is to evaluate all assets of funding to see how much money is available to be used for veteran funding programs and secure those funds in a way that there can't be cuts, so that the authorized people can provide the sufficient amount of funds that are promised to each veteran. By doing this the veterans would have a much higher chance of being helped with their physical and mental medical problems, also it would help them with their daily