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Definition. Who is a “veteran” in the UK ? Veterans are defined as anyone who has served for at least one day in Her Majesty’s Armed Forces (Regular or Reserve) or Merchant Mariners who have seen...
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Assistance securing the benefits you've earned. Numerous discounts on a number of products and services. With a VFW membership, you'll find all this and more! Further, your VFW membership establishes your place in the VFW legacy that dates back to our founding in 1899.
The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), formally the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, is an organization of United States war veterans who fought in wars, campaigns, and expeditions on foreign land, waters, or airspace as military service members.
As the largest and oldest war veterans service organization, we have a long and proven history of providing vital assistance and support to America's service members, veterans and their families.
- The Veterans Team
- Legacy Health
- Recognition
- Transition
- Ex-Service Offenders Working Group
- Homelessness
- Supporting Homeless Veterans: Mike Jackson House
- Supporting Homeless Veterans: The Beacon
- Ministerial Working Group on Tackling Homelessness
- Voluntary and Community Sector
The Veterans team within Pensions Compensation and Veterans (PCV) is responsible for the policy on a range of veteran issues. The main areas the team deals with are legacy health, recognition, commemoration, transition to civilian life and liaising with the voluntary and community sector, devolved administrations and local authorities.
Information about legacy health issues for armed forces veterans and veterans of the Porton Down testing programme and nuclear testing programme:
The veterans team is responsible for ensuring that former service in the armed forces is recognised, appreciated and valued by both the government and general public. It does this by formulating, developing, evaluating and reviewing policy taking account of financial and presentational aspects.
Information about some of the issues which may affect servicemen and women who are due to leave and veterans who have left the armed forces, including homelessness and support for veterans in the criminal justice system.
Status
The Ex-Service Offenders Working Group (ESOWG) is a non-executive group with a clear reporting chain within the MODand the MOJ who each report to their respective Ministers. This ensures that the working group remains core business.
Membership
1. MOJ: National Offender Management Service (Chair) 2. MOD 3. The Royal British Legion 4. His Majesty’s Prison Dartmoor 5. Combat Stress 6. SSAFA Forces Help 7. Nacro 8. Veterans UK Veterans Welfare Service 9. Action for Prisoner’s Families 10. Liaison Officer Scottish Prison Service 11. Liaison Officer Northern Ireland Prison Service 12. Centre for Mental Health
Aim
The working group aims to ensure that the ex-service prison and probation offender population, their families and the resettlement services, are fully informed of the forms and levels of support and assistance available from Veterans UK and the voluntary and community sector. This support and assistance applies during imprisonment as well as pre and post discharge. This work is designed to contribute to wider government policy for reducing the risk of reoffending by those offenders either in...
Homelessness is defined as having no permanent accommodation, and includes people in hostels and those couch-surfing. Rough sleeping is only those people actually sleeping on the streets.
Mike Jackson House (MJH) is a supported housing project based in Aldershot specifically designed for homeless veterans. MJH’s main aim is to support and assist veterans back into an independent way of living. The accommodation block has 25 furnished, self-contained flats, and located in Aldershot. It was opened in July 2008 and named after General ...
The Beacon is a new facility in Catterick for homeless single ex-service leavers and those who are at risk of becoming homeless. The Beacon provides a supported housing facility for 31 homeless veterans and opened in September 2011. It is managed and operated by Riverside Care and Support in Catterick near the existing garrison. It provides trainin...
The aim of the ministerial working group is to improve people’s lives by preventing and tackling homelessness. By bringing the relevant government departments together to share information, resolve issues and avoid unintended policy consequences, it will be able to help enable communities to tackle the multi-faceted issues that contribute to homele...
MODworks closely with many different organisations within the voluntary and community sector. We are committed to working in partnership with the ex-service charitable sector to deliver a high level of support where needed and particularly to the more vulnerable individuals in the armed forces community. There is a long and distinguished history of...
As the nation’s oldest major war veterans’ organization, the VFW has an impeccable and longstanding record of service and stewardship. More than 4.5 million patriotic Americans, both members and non-members, entrust the VFW with fi nancial contributions and dedicate millions of volunteer hours.
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At least 97.5 percent of its members must be: present or former members of the United States Armed Forces, cadets (including only students in college or university ROTC programs. or at Armed Services academies) or. spouses, widows, widowers, ancestors, or lineal descendants. of individuals referred to in the first or second bullet.
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