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CALL TO ACTION !! H.R. 2693 - Pay our Coast Guard Parity Ac

TREA Members, On April 14, 2023, Representative Hillary Scholten (Mich.) and Delegate Jennifer González-Colón (PR) introduced the “Pay our Coast Guard Parity Act” (H.R. 2693) a bipartisan bill aimed at ensuring that the U.S. Coast Guard is compensated for their work performed during government shutdowns. In early 2019, the Coast Guard was the only branch of the military that was not compensated while on duty during the government shutdown, which lasted over a month. This... Read More

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Call To Action - The major Richard Star (s.344/H.R.1282)

TREA Members, The Major Richard Star Act (S.344/H.R.1282) was re-introduced in the 118th Congress on February 9, 2023. If passed, the bill would support more than 50,300 combat-injured veterans with concurrent receipt of vested retired pay and VA disability. Currently, these combat-injured (and often seriously disabled) veterans are subject to a “cost-saving” offset where their retirement pay is reduced for every dollar of VA disability received. Retired pay is paid by DoD for completed years... Read More

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TREA Celebrates Veterans Day

TREA Members, We hope you had a wonderful weekend in honor of our nation's heroes. In observance of Veterans Day 2022, we are proud to share with you that TREA's National President Deb Oelschig, 1st Vice President Walt Coley, and members of our Executive Staff attended events at The White House, Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Arlington National Cemetery, and on Capitol Hill last week. TREA was especially honored to lay a wreath at the Tomb of... Read More

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Expanded Eligibility for VA Health Care

TREA Members, On October 1, 2022, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs expanded and extended eligibility for VA health care for certain Veterans of the Gulf Wars and post-9/11 era. This expansion has increased health care eligibility for hundreds of thousands of toxic-exposed Veterans. Additionally, VA has already expanded health care eligibility for certain Veterans of the Vietnam War. Beginning on October 1, Post-9/11 Veterans who did not previously enroll in VA health care will... Read More

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Call to Action for Toxic Exposure

TREA Members, Throughout our history, Servicemembers have suffered exposures to dangerous toxic substances while performing their duties both in combat and in peacetime. ? Most recently, a generation of veterans who served in Iraq, Afghanistan, and surrounding areas experienced recurring and prolonged exposure to toxic fumes from burn pits and other environmental hazards. As a result, many of them have developed respiratory conditions, cancers, and other serious illnesses, and many have already died. Sadly, far... Read More

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Annual Cost-of-Living Increase for Veterans

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - May 23, 2022 Contact: legislativeinfo@trea.org ? Senate Veterans Affairs Committee Leaders Push to Deliver Annual Cost-of-Living Increase for Veterans WASHINGTON : Senate Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and Ranking Member Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) have introduced the Veterans Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) Act of 2022 to increase the rates of compensation for veterans with service-connected disabilities and military survivors under the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). “When it comes to... Read More

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VA Establishes Presumptive Service Connection for Rare Cancers

TREA Members, As a result of our advocacy and your continued support, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is adding nine rare respiratory cancers to the list of presumed service-connected disabilities due to military environmental exposures to fine particulate matter. The following list of rare respiratory cancers will be added to VA s regulations through an Interim Final Rule published in the Federal Register on April 26, 2022: Squamous cell carcinoma of the larynx. Squamous... Read More

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TREA President Jump quoted in press release

Good news! TREA was recently quoted in another release in support of the the "Veteran Service Equity Act" which would expand the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program to individuals who work at organizations like TREA. Here is a link to the release, which will be shared on social media: ? https://mikelevin.house.gov/media/press-releases/reps-mike-levin-and-katie-porter-introduce-legislation-to-expand-public-service-loan-forgiveness-to-vso-employees... Read More

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