New Partnership to Bring Free Legal Assistance for Veterans on Certain Claims - KTVN

(December 8, 2022) Today, the Nevada Department of Veterans Services (NDVS) announced a historical caller concern with the National Veterans Legal Services Program to make incomparable escaped entree to ineligible practice for Nevada veterans and their families successful appeals earlier the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (CAVC).

This strategical concern marks the archetypal clip this escaped ineligible work volition beryllium disposable to veterans successful Nevada.

When the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs denies disablement claim, veterans person the close to appeal. The National Veterans Legal Services Program volition supply escaped ineligible practice successful enactment of entreaty cases.

The process begins erstwhile the NVLSP reviews a assertion successful which a veteran’s entreaty to the Board of Veterans’ Appeals (BVA), the highest authorization wrong the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, is denied and determines determination are grounds for an entreaty to the CAVC.

When this occurs, NVLSP offers to correspond the seasoned oregon the veteran’s household astatine nary cost. NVLSP volition supply escaped ineligible practice successful enactment of entreaty cases done this partnership.

In summation to NVLSP’s assistance to veterans with claims appeals, NVLSP volition besides assistance Nevada veterans with discharge upgrades, which volition assistance veterans entree benefits they whitethorn beryllium wrongfully denied owed to a less-than-honorable discharge. 

“This caller concern results successful the champion of some worlds for the veterans we are honored to service and our department,” said NDVS Director Fred Wagar. “Nevada veterans volition present person entree to an outstanding nationalist ineligible squad who volition support their rights astatine the highest ineligible levels to guarantee fairness successful the disablement benefits arena. Additionally, NDVS volition capitalize connected entree to the extended grooming and nonrecreational improvement portfolio that NVLSP volition connection to members of our team. This grooming volition beryllium invaluable arsenic we proceed to service Nevada veterans present and into the future.”

NVLSP is simply a nationalist nonprofit that that has worked since 1981 to guarantee that the authorities delivers to our nation’s 22-million veterans and active-duty unit the benefits they person earned due to the fact that of disabilities resulting from their subject work to our country.