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Our Military Kids supports military children (age 3 – 18) by providing grants up to $300 to fund sports, arts, and other enrichment activities when their parents are deployed overseas with the National Guard or Reserve or recovering from severe injuries sustained in a post-9/11 overseas mission. Participation in these activities helps military children cope with stress and build self-confidence during an otherwise difficult time in their lives. 

The Isakson and Roe Act allows service members to transfer all or part of their Post-9/11 GI Bill entitlement to their ward or foster child.

Post-9/11 Veterans have “alarmingly high rates” of insomnia disorder, according to a VA San Diego Healthcare System study. More than half of the Veterans studied had the disorder. Insomnia rates were even higher in Veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), traumatic brain injury (TBI), and chronic pain.

K9s for Warriors provides highly trained Veteran service dogs for Veterans who are suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury and/or military sexual trauma related to their service.

More than 2,000 volunteers from Carry The Load joined the National Cemetery Administration for a national day of service for 9/11.

The Veteran Toolbox Program provides Veterans with toolboxes filled with more than $600 of tools to help with their transition from the military.

The Mission Continues is organizing days of service to remember 9/11, volunteer for United in Service.

"Resetting the implementation" will ensure that students will receive their housing payments, and that schools will receive tuition and fee payments in a timely fashion.

Today, VA announced key changes in the processing of GI Bill benefits payments under the Harry W. Colmery Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2017 (Forever GI Bill).

Reservists called up for active duty will soon qualify for increased Post-9/11 GI Bill education benefits if they meet certain requirements.

The “Forever GI Bill” allows certain members of the National Guard and Reserve to transfer into the Post-9/11 GI Bill after they lost their educational benefits in 2015.

A provision of the Harry W. Colmery Veterans Educational Assistance Act, known as the “Forever GI Bill,” extends education benefits to this group of Purple Heart recipients effective Aug.  1.