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VETS Scholarships in DC Area

The Project VETS (Veterans Educated in Trading Skills) Scholarship Program plans to award over $3.15 million in scholarships to no fewer than 150 qualified veterans in the Baltimore and Washington DC Metro region for professional trading and investing education at the Online Trading Academy Baltimore and Online Trading Academy Washington DC Metro. Project VETS has been designed for disabled veterans returning from Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and Operation Enduring Freedom-Afghanistan. For more information, visit the Project VETS website, the Online Training Academy Washington DC website, or the Online Training Academy Baltimore website, or call Paul Arneson, Col (Ret) USAF, Project VETS Project Officer at 703-442-8282 or 301-919-6063.


VA Health Care for Combat Vets

Certain combat veterans who served after Nov. 11, 1998, but separated from service before Jan. 28, 2003, and who did not enroll before Jan. 28, 2008, have until January 27, 2011 to take advantage of their enhanced health care enrollment opportunity through the Department of Veterans Affairs. Veterans can apply for enrollment by contacting the VA at 877-222-VETS (8387) or with the help of a VA health care eligibility specialist at any VA medical center.


Veterans Community Program in NJ

Three counties in New Jersey are participating in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Veterans' Connection Community Living Program. The new program gives veterans and their families access to a wide range of home and community-based long-term care services. The program is helping some veterans continue to live at home and stay out of a nursing home. The counties in New Jersey that are participating are Morgan, Somerset, and Bergen. For more information, call the Division on Aging, Disabilities and Veterans at 1-800-564-4656.

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