New York to DC: Pay Your Bill for Your Veterans (Gotham Gazette)
Gotham Gazette, November 8, 2019
New York to DC: Pay Your Bill for Your Veterans
By Kent Eiler – Project Director of the City Bar Justice Center’s Veterans Assistance Project
“Each year around Veterans Day there’s a predictable pattern as politicos of all stripes march in parades and roll out proposals to thank and support our military veterans and their families. Little may come from all this activity, at least until Memorial Day, when, once again, there’s renewed focus on veterans and their survivors. It doesn’t have to be this way and it shouldn’t be this way, particularly in New York.
A report released earlier this year from the New York City Bar Association suggests New York’s veterans, when compared with their national counterparts, are not getting their fair share from Washington, D.C. Specifically, veterans in New York are not getting their fair share of veterans benefits from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, commonly known as “the VA.””
