Some states will only allow students to sit for state licensing exams if they've graduated from a properly accredited program. Some former students at the defunct for-profit Westwood Colleges accused the institution's criminal justice program in Chicago of not preparing them for work in Illinois law enforcement agencies. Last year, the Federal Trade Commission charged online-based Ashworth College with also misrepresenting the training and credentials students could earn there.
Many of the programs didn't meet state requirements for specific careers. The institution settled with the federal agency. Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, in an email. Tillis originally sponsored the legislation. Ochinko said he's unaware of just how many veterans have enrolled in programs that lack the requirements needed for graduates to enter their career fields, but the issue also affects nonveterans. We have retired comments and introduced Letters to the Editor.
Share your thoughts ». The undiagnosed illness must have appeared either during active service in the Southwest Asia theater of operations during the Gulf War period of Aug. Examples of symptoms of an undiagnosed illness and medically unexplained chronic multi-symptom illness defined by a cluster of signs and symptoms include: chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, functional gastrointestinal disorders, fatigue, signs or symptoms involving the skin, headache, muscle pain, joint pain, neurological signs or symptoms, neuropsychological signs or symptoms, signs or symptoms involving the respiratory system upper or lower , sleep disturbances, gastrointestinal signs or symptoms, cardiovascular signs or symptoms, abnormal weight loss, and menstrual disorders.
Presumptive service connection may be granted for the following infectious diseases if found compensable within a specific time period: Brucellosis, Campylobacter jejuni, Coxiella burnetti Q fever , Malaria, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, non-typhoid Salmonella, Shigella, Visceral leishmaniasis, and West Nile virus. Qualifying periods of service for these infectious diseases include active military, naval, or air service in the above stated Southwest Asia theater of operations during the Gulf War period of Aug.
Certain Servicemembers and Veterans with service-connected disabilities may be entitled to a housing grant from VA to help build a new specially adapted house, to adapt a home they already own, or buy a house and modify it to meet their disability-related requirements.
Eligible Veterans or Servicemembers may now receive up to three grants, with the total dollar amount of the grants not to exceed the maximum allowable. Previous grant recipients who had received assistance of less than the current maximum allowable may be eligible for an additional grant. In certain instances, the full grant amount may be applied toward remodeling costs.
Veterans and Servicemembers must be determined eligible to receive compensation for permanent and total service-connected disability due to one of the following:. To be eligible for this grant, Servicemembers and Veterans must be entitled to compensation for permanent and total service-connected disability due to one of the following:. Grant amounts are adjusted Oct. These adjustments will increase the grant amounts or leave them unchanged; grant amounts will not decrease.
The property may be located outside the United States, in a country or political subdivision which allows individuals to have or acquire a beneficial property interest, and in which the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, in his or her discretion, has determined that it is reasonably practicable for the Secretary to provide assistance in acquiring specially adapted housing.
For more information on SAH, visit www. Veterans and Servicemembers with available loan guaranty entitlement may also obtain a guaranteed loan or a direct loan from VA to supplement the grant to acquire a specially adapted home. As of Oct. They may also be eligible for adaptive equipment, and for repair, replacement, or reinstallation required because of disability or for the safe operation of a vehicle purchased with VA assistance. To apply, contact a VA regional office at or the nearest VA health care facility.
Any Veteran who has service-connected disabilities that require a prosthetic or orthopedic appliances may receive clothing allowances. Of course, this isn't always the case; some legislation deals with a fairly narrow range of related concerns. The process of incorporating a newly-passed piece of legislation into the Code is known as "classification" -- essentially a process of deciding where in the logical organization of the Code the various parts of the particular law belong.
Sometimes classification is easy; the law could be written with the Code in mind, and might specifically amend, extend, or repeal particular chunks of the existing Code, making it no great challenge to figure out how to classify its various parts.
And as we said before, a particular law might be narrow in focus, making it both simple and sensible to move it wholesale into a particular slot in the Code. But this is not normally the case, and often different provisions of the law will logically belong in different, scattered locations in the Code. As a result, often the law will not be found in one place neatly identified by its popular name. Nor will a full-text search of the Code necessarily reveal where all the pieces have been scattered.
Instead, those who classify laws into the Code typically leave a note explaining how a particular law has been classified into the Code. It is usually found in the Note section attached to a relevant section of the Code, usually under a paragraph identified as the "Short Title".
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