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Veterans Benefit Seminar Sandra Howery Agency: Hart Senior Center Supervisor: Linda Hoschler
So many military Veterans do not know what benefits are owed to them after serving our country in one of the branches of the United States military. In order to get this information out to the clients from the Ethel Hart Senior Center a veteran’s benefit seminar was planned. The student got interested in this subject after her own dad who is 78 years old just recently started receiving disability benefits for being injured in action during the Korean War. He should have started receiving these benefits right after being discharged from the Army but because he didn’t know these benefits were available to him he just recently started receiving disability payments. The purpose of this project was to inform military Veterans, spouses of Veteran’s and widow and widowers of what benefits are owed to them and to provide resources for them so they will know who to contact about receiving benefits it also allowed these individuals to ask questions directly to the representative speaking at the seminar in person. A Veteran Benefit Resource Book will be left at the front desk at the Ethel Hard Senior Center for current clients and future clients to have access to so they can find out who to contact if they have questions about their military benefits. The Ethel Hart Senior center receive a lot of calls asking about information on many subjects that the center may not offer but with this resource book they can at least help them find out who to contact if they have questions about Veteran’s benefits. The research information for the seminar and the resource book was found from research on the internet and several phone calls to several agency’s in the Sacramento who offer Veteran’s services. The resource book will list phone numbers and addresses of local, state and federal Veteran agencies. Presented at 8:35am in El Dorado Hall 1039 on May 15, 2009 Go back to Service Learning Presentations
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