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Federal lawsuit seeks to speed veterans’ disability compensation appeals
More than four decades after he first showed symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, Vietnam War veteran Conley Monk Jr. still is waiting for approval of medical coverage and, more recently, disability benefits, from the Veterans Administration. “We are literally in the military’s latest Catch-22,” U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal said Monday at a press conference announcing a class-action lawsuit to help rectify one of the multiple issues still in play for Monk and thousands like him. Read more…
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