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VA Launches New Health Care Website Devoted to Women Who Served

The Department of Veterans Affairs now has a health care website devoted strictly to women. Here are a few interesting facts about women veterans that help explain why a greater emphasis on women veteran’s healthcare is so desperately needed: 1.  The average age of women veterans in 2009 was 46 compared to male veterans at age 63; 2.  Females make… Read more
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Veterans Retraining Assistance Program (VRAP) applications accepted by the VA starting May 15th 2012

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Retraining Assistance Program Congress passed, and the President signed into law, the VOW to Hire Heroes Act of 2011.  Included in this new law is the Veterans Retraining Assistance Program (VRAP).  VRAP offers up to 12 months of training assistance to unemployed Veterans.  The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Department of Labor… Read more