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Two veterans of New Hampshire, their colleagues and veterinarians are well armed - of information.

Russ Armstrong of Gilford and Bob Jones of Meredith, both Vietnam era vets, as they work together to ensure that not only colleagues and veterinarians know the federal benefits and state, to which they are entitled, but also where you to the help they need in bid solicitations for the US Department of Veterans Affairs, or are in need of emergency aid local organizations for services.

Their efforts in other organizations of veterans and the state of Maine.

There are more than 130000 veterans living in the country, after the coup d’état of New Hampshire Veterans’ Council. The figure is about 10 percent of the state of 1.3 million people. In Maine, there are about 150000 veterans of the state of the high population of 1.3 million, that État’s Department of Veterans’ Affairs.

Jones is a case manager for VetLink to Laconia, a spin-off of the Health Link, a program of health, LRGHealthcare, which is based in Laconia, and Franklin. VetLink aid to honor veterans, licensees, as well as their families, health care with the needs and issues. It has contributed to more than 1000 vets, because it began four years ago, said Jones.

“We started VetLink, because we found that many of the people who come to health link to the search for information and need support for the costs in the health sector are veterans,” said Jones .

He said, in essence, VetLink contribute to a veteran roster with a requirement of the Veterans’ Administration. In the best case, he added, health and VetLink link would then be able to help when needed beyond what the sub-addresses.

Jones said that most of the veterans issue, and filing a request for the VA to try all documents and records necessary.

One of the most important groupings need a veteran, he said, the DD214, a document which shows individual and when, how and where they serve. But records lost or destroyed for the large group of World War II and the US Army-Air Force veterans, many of whom have needed now is a long-term assistance. 1973 A fire in a repository St. Louis burned many recordings. Records that has been made in the numbering hundreds, were hastily and joined the advance.

Jones said that another subject leads to the confusion is that VA health programs and services in each country, the province or territory differ from each other.

Russ Armstrong, the chairman of the sub-committee of senior citizens from the Committee on the state of New Hampshire on Aging, agrees.

“It very quickly became obvious that the cause of the problem is a lack of understanding between veterans, available resources,” said Armstrong.

It works in conjunction with the Service, a system of subsidies, the resource centres for the elderly and disabled adults, the development of resources specific to the sector of activity to the list of veterans services will be working relationship Case use.

New Hampshire State Senator Joe Kenney, R-Wakefield, has contributed to the same list. It is not by seniors in the state of New Hampshire.

He was a member of the legislature of New Hampshire Cares Task Force, a committee of the Senate of the State to wrap their work and writing a final report.

Kenny said the Task Force has spent more than a year in search of veterans’ health care in New Hampshire. Definitive recommendations is a call for improved access to health care for veterans State, the return of the Manchester VA hospital to a Full-Service - Implementation of better quality, more reliable transportation VA health.

Kenney said the Committee concluded, it must be a resource of the State for veterans of the list. The first manual is written, and they are planning, printing and distribution of at least 100000 copies, “said Kenney.

A bill that would require the State Veterans’ Council, has updated a guide every two years, and the Senate is in front of the house.

The State of New Hampshire Veterans’ is the Council on the status of veterans’ affairs division. Each State shall, by such a division or department, “said Mary Morin, the Council of Elders director.

Thanks to the municipality, veterans service officers visited 18 sites across the state to take twice a month with local and veterinarians to help with questions and concerns, said Morin , adding that most veterinarians, with the works council want to help you with a VA claim.