Bernie Sanders

IAVA supports the draft bill entitled the Enhanced Dental Care for Veterans Act, which would extend allowable dental services to veterans.

The Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) should be given the ability to provide dependency and indemnity compensation (DIC) and other related benefits to the family automatically

The VFW does not support section 2 of this legislation which would authorize VA to provide counseling services to active duty servicemembers for the treatment of psychological trauma associated military sexual assault without obtaining…

On behalf of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), I would like to extend our gratitude for the opportunity to share with you our views, thoughts, concerns and recommendations regarding these important pieces of legislation.

The VFW supports Chairman Sanders and Senator Rockefeller in their efforts to improve the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA).

IAVA has no position on this draft legislation, which would provide replacement automobiles for certain disabled veterans and servicemembers

It seems to us that in order to help a veteran who has Post-traumatic Stress Disorder or Traumatic Brain Injury, especially chronic PTSD or TBI, family members and caregivers need support and assistance if efforts of the VA are to have any…

IAVA supports the Improved Compensation for Hearing Loss Act, which would require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to submit reports on the findings and actions taken to address a 2006 Institute of Medicine and the National Academies…

IAVA supports the draft bill entitled the Medical Foster Home Act, which would allow the VA to cover the costs associated with care at a medical foster home.

IAVA supports this draft legislation, which would base Service-Disabled Veteran Insurance premium rates on the Commissioners 2001 Standard Ordinary Table of Mortality

Considering the somewhat belated attention being paid to MST, this bill takes a rather proactive approach to assisting veterans who have been victimized by abuse.

This being so, the case is compelling to add dental care to the package of benefits to patients at VA healthcare facilities who are not 100 percent service-connected disabled.

Gee, progress! VVA of course supports this effort by the Chairman to bring a modicum of rationality to this program.

The VFW applauds Chairman Sanders and Senator Rockefeller for each taking the issue of protecting servicemembers and their families very seriously.

IAVA supports the Survivors of Military Sexual Assault and Domestic Abuse Act, which would allow VA to provide counseling and treatment for sexual trauma to members of the Armed Forces.

IAVA supports the draft bill entitled the Mental Health Support for Veteran Families and Caregivers Act, which would establish education and peer support programs.

The VA should be the primary one-stop shop for the services and benefits that veterans have earned

A measure of this ilk has been needed for some time, especially in those areas of the Nation where public transportation is spotty or non-existent.

Thank you very much.

This bill would create a three year pilot program providing dental care and treatment to enrolled veterans who are not eligible for dental care under current authorities.

S. xxxx veterans health care eligibility expansion and enhancement act of 2013 (sen. sanders, i-vt)

With that, let me thank the panel very, very much for your excellent testimony.

The SCRA Enhancement and Improvement Act incorporates a number of needed technical fixes and enhanced protections for military women and men called to active Federal service.

If our goal is to simplify and bring people into the system, a telephone book which has his income level different than mine and we live two miles apart makes no sense at all to my mind.

In Vermont, if Senator Begich were to live in one county and I live literally a mile away from him in another county, he might be eligible; I might not be eligible.