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Helping Our Heroes: Reducing Veterans Claims Waiting Times For local veterans the claims process is not just a long waiting game, it's also pretty complicated. In part two of looking at claims pitfalls in our veterans' series, we examine the rest of the process, starting with how claims get rated. |
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Helping Our Heroes: The Story Behind the Disability Claims Line Between the two Texas veterans affairs offices — Houston and Waco — processing veterans' claims, there's a backlog of over 80,000. It's a number that's growing because of a large returning veteran population, and a complicated process. As part of our Helping Our Heroes series, we take a look at the claims' pitfalls from both sides. |
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What Veteran Issues Will Be Addressed In This Texas Legislative Session? State legislators intend to lay out their bills for the 83rd legislative session over the coming months. Veteran's organizations will be waiting to see if they are part of lawmaker's plans. Most notably they'll look for legislation that works on reducing the disability claims backlogs that are continuing to rise in Texas. |
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Veteran Aims To Paint Every Fallen Texas Soldier The number of fallen Texas soldiers from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars is at 611 and counting. One veteran in Baytown has made it his life's mission to commit every single one to canvas. In our continuing veteran series "Helping our Heroes" we look at how one man's paintings help those who are left behind. |
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Helping Our Heroes: Free Legal Advice For Vets It's called defending America's defenders, pro-bono lawyers and legal clinics that assist veteran's with issues like bankruptcy, claiming VA benefits or custody battles. In our continuing veteran series Helping our Heroes and with just a few days till Veteran's Day, we take a look at these clinics. |
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Helping Our Heroes: Local Veteran Organization Needs Your Vote As we near election day, one local veteran organization is also looking for your vote. "Rebuilding Together Houston" is a group that repairs veteran's homes is in a tight four way race for $25,000 dollars. |
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Helping Our Heroes: PTSD Help In Houston Many veterans are reluctant or don’t know how to tackle their post traumatic stress disorder and other mental health issues. Those are the people that the Michael E. DeBakey hospital is looking for at their mental health fair this Friday. In our continuing series Helping Our Heroes focuses on PTSD and where some help can be found for our local veterans. |
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Houston Veterans Get VA Housing Bump Houston's continuing efforts to house 100 homeless veterans in 100 days just got a boost. A new V.A. grant will give vets a chance to stay on in their temporary homes. |
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Helping Our Heroes: Houston Congressman Writes Bill To Help Veterans Houston's Congressman Al Green recently passed a veteran's bill through the House. It still has to pass the Senate, but the hope is that disabled and low-income veterans will get a little more housing help. |
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Team Rubicon Gives Veterans A New Mission In the latest installment of our military series Helping our Heroes, we look at Team Rubicon, a group of mostly Iraq and Afghanistan veterans whose goal is to help those stuck in a disaster. Most recently, they came to League City to do some emergency response training. |
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Helping Our Heroes: What It's Like Waiting In The VA Benefits Line Veteran's disability claim issues are growing. In the past, it the issue might have been an injured knee or back but now veterans are dealing with many more medical issues, like traumatic brain injuries and post traumatic stress disorder. So if the nearly 1.7 million veterans living in Texas submitted an average of ten disability claims each, well, that’s a lot of claims and a long waiting list. As part of our ongoing military series "Helping Our Heroes," Edel Howlin asks, what's it like for a local veteran to be on that list? |
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Helping Our Heroes: Military Dogs Need Care Packages Too As part of our ongoing military series "Helping Our Heroes" today we look at the lesser known soldier, the military canine. Two local women are dedicating their spare time to ensure war dogs get care packages too. |
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Part Three: Local Marine Vet Talks About Life After War Today we have the final installment in our new veteran series "Helping our Heroes." Now at home, Iraq veteran Oskar Gonzalez-Yetsirah realized he wasn’t quite the same person who left to serve his country |
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Part Two: Local Marine Vet Describes Life In Iraq Yesterday we brought you the first installment in our new veteran series "Helping our Heroes." Today in part two, we return to Iraq veteran Oskar Gonzalez-Yetzirah as he talks about life in a warzone. |
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Part One: Local Marine Vet Didn't Plan On Going To War Houston has the largest post 911 veteran population in the country. With so many returning vets, KUHF wanted to highlight their challenges in an ongoing series called "Helping our Heroes." We begin with Oskar Gonzalez-Yetzirah, an Iraq veteran. In part one of this three part conversation, Oskar discusses why he chose to be a Marine. |
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Houston Fast Becoming A Hot Spot For Helping VAs Over 22,000 war veterans call Houston home, the second largest vet population in the United States. And the largest number of post 9/11 vets. So as local soldiers return in their droves from Iraq and Afghanistan, Houston veterans' programs are making sure their sometimes difficult re-entry into civilian life goes as smoothly as possible. |
