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January 15 %u2022 2025 www.VeteransReporterNews.com VETERANS Reporter News 3VETERANSReporter NewsESTABLISHED 1989Published monthly by:Veterans Reporter News, Inc.PO Box 365220North Las Vegas, NV 89036Phone: (702) 642-7028 Fax: (702) 369-1290E-mail:%u2022 veteransreporternews@gmail.comOnline Edition:%u2022 www.VeteransReporterNews.com%u2022 Facebook.com/Veterans-Reporter-News%u2022 Twitter.com/veteransreportPublisher: %u2022 Su PhelpsVeterans Reporter News solicits Veteran related articles, letters, press releases, and photos with captions. Advertisers may submit stories about their business. The views and opinions expressed on these pages by others do not necessarily represent or reflect the views and opinions of the Veterans Reporter News. Veterans Reporter News reserves the right to edit down any material sent to us due to space requirements and limitations. The Veterans Reporter News does not endorse any candidates that place advertisement in the paper.%u00a9 2017 All rights reserved.Contributing Editors, Writers And Photographers:Su Phelps, Janet Snyder, Richard Keirn, NDVS Press Release, Susan Santarcangelo, Dr Tom Waters, Dr. Linda MIller, Kathleen Taylor, City of Henderson Police Department, American Military News, Dr. Robert Odell .Md. PhD, Darryl Ginwright, LEN YELINEK, AMERICA NAVY, SNHD, Vic%u201dDOC%u201d Moss, Natalie Bruzda,Tom McCourt, Courtney B Kaplan, Chuck Baker, Barbra Rodgick, Nikkie Preston, RAY KELLER. TOM DORSEY, Lt Col Ranson, Pat Spearman, Ralph McNamara, karen Esterbook.Biden Signs Wide-Ranging Veterans Bill that Includes Improvements to Veteran Caregiver, Homelessness Programs%u25a0 Military.comMore support for home caregivers of aging and disabled veterans and bolstered services for homeless veterans are now law after President Joe Biden signed a wide-ranging veterans bill.Biden signed the Senator Elizabeth Dole 21st Century Veterans Healthcare and Benefits Improvement Act into law on Thursday evening, the White House said in a news release.The bill was the most comprehensive piece of veterans legislation approved by Congress in its 2023-24 session and combined several smaller measures on caregiver programs, homelessness, community care, job training, education benefits and more into one package.%u201cThe men and women who have served have earned access to a VA that puts them -- not government bureaucracy -- at the center of its operations,%u201d House Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Mike Bost, R-Ill., said in a statement after Biden signed the bill. %u201cFrom expanding job training opportunities for transitioning service members and veterans, to improving mental health care for caregivers, to protecting veterans%u2019 health care options for day-to-day services to more elderly care options, and much more in between -- I know this legislation will make a difference for veterans and their families.%u201dThat change is one of several in the bill related to caregivers programs that were long pushed by advocates who say that veterans should be able to live out their final days at home if they choose. Another key change in the bill is a new grant program for mental health care for veteran caregivers.While the final bill received widespread bipartisan support, the legislation got bogged down in politics over the summer amid a partisan fight over the future of the VA%u2019s community care program, which allows veterans to see nonVA doctors using VA funding.Ultimately, negotiations stripped the bill of one controversial community care provision but left another in. The provision that is now law bans VA administrators from overriding a VA doctor%u2019s referral for their patient to get outside care.On veteran homelessness, the bill will increase the per diem rate the VA can pay to organizations providing shortterm transitional housing from 115% of costs to 133%. It will also give the VA flexibility to provide unhoused veterans with bedding, shelter, food, hygiene items, blankets and rideshare services to medical appointments.Other changes in the bill include extending a high-tech job training program for veterans through 2027; allowing GI Bill beneficiaries to continue getting a housing allowance even if they are only part-time students in their final semester; and requiring the VA to reimburse ambulance costs for some rural veterans.The bill was sent to Biden%u2019s desk after a 382-12 vote in the House on Dec. 16. It was the second time the House approved the bill after the Senate approved a version of the legislation that fixed some drafting errors.Chris Ott, right, and her son, former Marine John Thomas Doody. J.T., left, who was shot while serving in Fallujah, Iraq., and subsequently suffered an infection and a series of strokes that left him in a coma and relying on a ventilator to survive. J.T. and Chris are shown Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2013, in Riverview, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O%u2019Meara)INVITATIONJewish War Veterans of the USASgt. Manny Peven Post 65Henderson, NV 89044Meets the First Sundayof Every MonthFor further information contact:JERRY(702) 565-1430%u201cPromote your message in VeteransReporter News. Email ad details toveteransreporternews@gmail.comTODAY! Reach a loyal and engaged audience.%u201d