Senator Tammy Baldwin's office issued the following last week:
For Immediate Release
Thursday, February 23, 2017
Contact:
Baldwin (202) 224–6225
Tester (202) 228–0374
U.S. Senators Tammy Baldwin and Jon Tester Urge VA to Support Student Veterans
WASHINGTON,
D.C. – U.S. Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Jon Tester (D-MT) are
urging the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to more strongly support
our student veterans. In a letter, the Senators call on the VA to allow
university
services staff to streamline student veteran data by submitting the
data through the National Student Clearinghouse. This will help
university staff to devote more time to assisting our veterans in
adapting to life as students.
“These
university staff, many of whom are veterans themselves, dedicate their
careers to ensuring that student veterans can excel in an academic
environment,”
wrote the senators.
“However, due to the immense workload of monitoring and submitting data
to verify eligibility for educational benefits, they often lack the time
necessary to aid veteran students with issues such as assimilation and
crucial study
habits. This proposal offers a commonsense way to streamline the data
submission
process to VA while giving our veteran student population more resources to succeed in their colleges and universities.”
A copy of the letter is available
here.
An online version of this release is available
here.
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