Senator Akaka thanks the chairman during the session.
07/23/2012
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VA supports a cost-of-living adjustment of this nature.
Without an annual COLA increase, these veterans and their families would see the value of their hard-earned benefits slowly diminish.
The passage of S. 407, the Veterans' Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2009, is critical.
S. 475, if enacted, would place a spouse in a more advantageous position to servicemembers on the question of payment of state taxes.