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LVMAC Tidbit: Limited Time Offer — Veterans Trust Fund Grants Available
Click on image for active links For the application form, click here. ### As of 16 December 2022
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LVMAC Tidbit: Colonial Penn Move Over, VA is Launching a New Life Insurance Policy
On 1 January 2023, the Department of Veterans Affairs will open enrollment for its new VALife life insurance policy — making life insurance available to more Veterans than ever before. According to the news release, this is the first new VA life insurance program for Veterans in more than 50 Read more…
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LVMAC Tidbit: Retired VA Phone Number Putting Veterans at Risk
Oh, and By the Way, Know Your Shortcut Numbers Today, our VISN-4 Community Relations Office informed us with the message below that a retired VA phone number may put military veterans’ information at risk: The Department of Veterans Affairs established 1-800-MyVA411 (1-800-698-2411) in 2020 to help Veterans, their family Read more…
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LVMAC Tidbit: Ritter School Resumes Veterans Day Interviews and Preparations
Attention Veterans! Ritter Veteran Interview Day Dear Veteran: We are SO happy to say…we are back!! The fifth-grade classes at Ritter Elementary School are studying American History and important Americans. Veterans are important people in America, and our students want to learn more about the contributions veterans have made to Read more…
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LVMAC Tidbit: Immediate Local VA Healthcare … As Easy as 1, 2, 3?
We have previously written about the VISN-4’s Health Chat program, an improvement on the previous longstanding, “night nurse” scheme that has existed for eon’s in the VA Healthcare system. What has not been written about is the investment our VISN-4 has made to get veterans to the “right care, right Read more…
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LVMAC Tidbit: Understanding the PACT Act a Bit Better
At the American Legion’s National Convention on 31 August, Secretary of Veterans Affair McDonough announced that he will make all conditions outlined in the PACT Act, one of the biggest expansions of veteran benefits in history, presumptive from the date President Biden signed the bill into law (August 10). The Read more…
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LVMAC Tidbit: Lehigh Valley Community Foundation Awards Three Veterans Grants for 2022
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LVMAC Tidbit: CareerLink Wants to Hire You!
Two Key Veterans Positions Being Offered After diddling around for months and months, the Commonwealth’s Human Resources system has finally gotten around to advertising for two key, vacant, federally funded, CareerLink Lehigh Valley positions which are important to the veterans community. A quick summary is provided below and where to Read more…
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LVMAC Tidbit: Crisis Line Adds a “900” Telephone Line
The new, easy to remember number to reach the Veterans Crisis Line starts Saturday, July 16. Just dial 988 and press 1. Please help spread the word to all military veterans and their friends and families. The number is new, but the support is the same. Part of the Read more…