Please check out our Veterans Day news stories!

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What's New?
A VA health care funding bill has been introduced in the House (H.R. 6939) and Senate (S. 3527)!

The new legislation, called the “Veterans Health Care Budget Reform Act,” would authorize advance appropriations for Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health care programs one year in advance of the start of the fiscal year, an idea favored by more than 80 percent of American voters, according to a survey released by DAV.

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Please Check Out Our Story Series
In Their Own Words
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More than 300,000 veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan are suffering traumatic brain injury (TBI), post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), severe depression and other conditions that could require a lifetime of care.

Yet the federal government is not providing sufficient, timely, and predictable funding to treat their visible and invisible wounds of war.  Uncertainty about funding due to political wrangling could block thousands of veterans from receiving the health care they deserve.

Please Sign The Petition! 
More than 20,000 have signed, and are calling on Congress to Stand Up For Veterans by providing them with the mental and physical health care they need, and by passing new legislation to ensure sufficient, timely and predictable funding to pay for it.

Our veterans stood up for us.
Now it's time we stand up for them.

Stand Up For Veterans is an initiative of Disabled American Veterans, an organization of 1.4 million disabled veterans founded in 1920, who are focused on building better lives for disabled veterans and their families. The initiative seeks to find public policy solutions for all veterans, particularly those returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, who have incurred devastating injuries and disabilities, including traumatic brain injury, post-traumatic stress disorder and other psychological wounds of war.

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