KEY POINTS:

• Full Tricare for life for all servicemembers.

• Eliminate the VA benefits backlog, fully fund and resource the VA, and reverse the disastrous privatization of services for veterans.

• Expand VA, and filling the nearly 50,000 vacancies at the VA.

• Provide at least $62 billion in new funding to repair, modernize and rebuild VA infrastructure.

• Expand the VA’s Caregivers Program as well as mental health services for veterans.

• Reform harmful VA regulations that restrict access to care and benefits based on character of discharge.

• Improve the GI Bill: Increase benefits to cover the full cost of higher education, including tuition, housing, and books, at public and private institutions

Details:

Whether they were drafted three-quarters of a century ago, commissioned or enlisted within the last few years, no one with prior military service should have to spend months, years or even decades fighting through red tape and government bureaucracy to prove they’re entitled to the benefits they were promised. We need to guarantee veterans they will receive the benefits and services they were promised.