Still a Veteran
The Justice-Involved Veteran’s Guide to Protecting Your VA Benefits Through Incarceration, Treatment Court, and Reentry
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The Justice-Involved Veteran's Guide to Protecting Your VA Benefits Through Incarceration, Treatment Court, and Reentry
You are holding this book because something in your life collided with the law, or you love someone whose life did, and now there are questions about the VA benefits sitting in the middle of it. Will the check stop. Will it stop forever. Can the family still eat. Does a conviction erase what was earned in uniform. Is there anyone inside this system who is actually on your side.
This book lays out the written rules in plain language: what an arrest does and does not change, what felony incarceration does to compensation, why pension is stricter, how apportionment can route the withheld money to your spouse and children, and the steps that restore benefits after release.
Inside this book
- 1You Are Still a Veteran
- 2Bad Paper, Open Door
- 3The 61-Day Rule
- 4Pension Is Different
- 5The Overpayment Trap
- 6Keep It in the Family
- 7Veterans Treatment Courts
- 8The VA People Whose Job Is to Help You
- 9Inside the Walls
- 10Coming Home
The book also points you to its free field guide, Protecting Benefits Through Incarceration and Reentry, a short step-by-step companion, free to download with no signup.
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J. Erickson
Author, educator, former veteran service officer.
J. Erickson is a service-disabled Air Force veteran. He served as a military firefighter and as a veteran service officer, where he spent years walking veterans through the same claims process he writes about now. He holds an MBA and writes plain-language guides for veterans who want to understand the system without a translator.
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