Underserved

How the VA Wrongfully Excludes Veterans with Bad Paper

A report published in conjunction with National Veterans Legal Services Program and the Veterans Legal Clinic at the Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School to raise awareness about the implications of excluding “bad paper” veterans from care and the VA’s authority to grant access.

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Legal

Update and Clarify Regulatory Bars to Benefits Based on Character of Discharge

Comments Of The National Veterans Legal Services Program and Swords to Plowshares

Swords to Plowshares and the National Veterans Legal Service Program (“Petitioners”) submit these comments in response to the proposed rule issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (“VA”) on July 10, 2020 (“Proposed Rule”).

Education

Student Veteran Financial Challenges

What Policy Makers, Universities, and Veterans Need to Know

In order to understand the financial challenges and needs of student veterans, Swords to Plowshares conducted eleven online focus groups and three in-person research workshops with seventy-seven student veterans in California from forty colleges and universities in 2019 and early 2020.

Education

Succeed Before You Start

Tips from student veterans on planning for the GI Bill, transitioning to school, and dealing with finances and debt.

This toolkit is not exhaustive and not intended to be. This research is peer-based, gathered from those who went through it, and learned from their experiences and solutions.

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