Those veterans represent just a small fraction of America’s warriors who reach out during a crisis. Vulnerable Veterans Have No One to Fall Back On in a Crisis Those 732 veteran households are in addition to nearly 1,000 veterans served every year by the agency’s Operation Sacred Trust collaboration since 2011.Īt the current pace, Operation Sacred Trust will have served all the veterans expected and budgeted for the entire fiscal year that ends on September 30 several months early. Harris finally begin receiving VA benefits for the service connected disability he suffered more than 50 years earlier.
This week, Purpose Built Families Foundation succeeded in helping Mr.
World War II veteran Arthur Harris, 102, decided decades ago he’d never ask the VA for anything after experiences that left him distrustful and angry. During that period, the program has distributed more than $1.6 million in temporary financial assistance for expenses as diverse as rental and security deposit assistance, child care help, hotel and motel stays, utility payments, emergency food and related supplies, transportation assistance, and more. Just since October, the program, funded by a VA Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF) grant, has served 1,113 veterans and their family members in Broward and Miami-Dade counties: 732 unique veteran households. In South Florida, Purpose Built Families Foundation answers veterans’ calls for help 24/7/365. He did not receive compensation for the decades in which VA denied his claim, but for the time this 102 year old veteran has left, he’ll receive monthly payments starting this month.
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He was awarded service connected disability payments for injuries he suffered 50 plus years earlier. Harris received a letter from VA for which he’d waited more than half a century. Harris learned the team was led by Kevin Williams, who himself served 28 years in the US Army, he agreed to give us a chance. Harris to agree to give our Veteran Benefits team a chance to assist him. Harris told me he’d given up on VA more than 40 years prior. When I first met the 102-year old World War II veteran as Purple Heart Homes, a North Carolina Veteran Services Organization, was installing a wheelchair ramp at his West Park, Florida home, Mr. World War II Veteran Waited Half a Century for VA Benefits
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