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The law now applies to any veteran who served on active duty during a war, including the Vietnam War and the Gulf War, which is defined as beginning on August 2, 1990, with no fixed end date. [ 3 ] A special disabled veteran is a person who is entitled to compensation under laws administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs for a ...
Veterans' Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2018 To increase, effective as of December 1, 2018, the rates of compensation for veterans with service-connected disabilities and the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for the survivors of certain disabled veterans, and for other purposes. Pub. L. 115–258 (text) 115-259
Between 1968 and 1972, the Phoenix program, according to CORDS statistics, neutralized 81,740 VC of whom 26,369 were killed. 87 percent of those deaths were attributed to conventional military operations by South Vietnam and the U.S.; the remainder were executed and, in the opinion of critics, were often innocent or non-combatants and were ...
The Vietnam Border Guard (Vietnamese: Bộ đội Biên phòng Việt Nam) is the border security branch of the Vietnam People's Army.. It is responsible for the management and protection of the sovereignty, territorial integrity, security, order and national boundaries on the mainland, islands, sea and at the gate as shall by law and is force member in provincial areas of defence, border ...
Civil law is a branch of law in the Vietnamese legal system, comprising a collection of regulations governing property relations [11] [12] [13] and certain personal relations in civil transactions on the basis of equality, self-determination, and self-responsibility of the subjects participating in civil relations.
According to administration statistics, the Department of Veterans Affairs has received nearly 786,000 disability claims under the PACT Act, processed almost 435,000 and approved more than 348,000.
In response to the new need of welfare assistance to the new relocated refugees, the Indochinese Refugee Assistance Program was developed. This gave clearance for any Vietnamese, Cambodian, or Lao refugees to tap into the same resources that Cuban refugees had attained in the early 1970s, which included financial assistance and health ...
A federal law has forced nearly 122,000 disabled veterans to return lump-sum incentives they received to leave the military, according to new data obtained by NBC News.