At Issue with Mark Welp
Benefits Veterans May Be Missing
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Learn how local service officers help veterans explore benefits for families.
Heather Carreathers explains how the Tazewell County Veterans Assistance Commission helps veterans navigate disability claims, education benefits and support for spouses and survivors. She discusses why some veterans may not realize they qualify and how service officers help them understand their options.
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At Issue with Mark Welp is a local public television program presented by WTVP
At Issue with Mark Welp
Benefits Veterans May Be Missing
Clip: Season 4 Episode 9 | 1m 11sVideo has Closed Captions
Heather Carreathers explains how the Tazewell County Veterans Assistance Commission helps veterans navigate disability claims, education benefits and support for spouses and survivors. She discusses why some veterans may not realize they qualify and how service officers help them understand their options.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- Well, there's quite a number of benefits.
We primarily focus on the veteran disability claims.
There are multiple service connected disabilities that veterans have that maybe you or other people cannot see, right, and they are owed treatment for that, for the rest of their life.
So we want to help them.
And a lot of veterans don't know that they qualify for these services and that's what we're here for, to support them, to help educate them, guide them through the process on that.
We also discuss with them and assist them with education benefits, survivor benefits, spousal benefits, so dependency compensation and pensions, because most of the time, especially with these older vets that you've mentioned at the beginning, their spouses are taking care of them as they begin to age.
But one thing we really wanna focus on in Tazewell County are the veterans that don't think or don't understand that they deserve these benefits.
I mean, they served our country, they raised their right hand.
It doesn't matter if you served one year or 30 years, Mark.
They deserve all of the benefits that we can offer them.
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