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Mass. bill would make services more accessible to all veterans
The Army-Navy game is a sporting spectacle brimming passionately with patriotism and pageantry, and for the first time ever, it was played in Massachusetts. In the stands at Gillette Stadium on Saturday was the state’s first ever secretary of Veteran Services, a new cabinet-level position in the Healy administration: Jon Santiago. In the lead-up to the game, NBC10 Boston...
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Black vets seeking health care face racial inequity
Ahead of this weekend’s Army-Navy game at Gillette Stadium, Massachusetts Veteran Services Sec. Jon Santiago talked about what the state can do to help address racial disparities in the federal system.
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American Vets: Benefits. Race & Inequality
For years, Black veterans have been denied disability benefits at higher rates than their white counterparts. NBC News and NBC stations around the country investigated the disparities in this special report. And the reporting is getting results.
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Mass. veteran sues VA for discrimination
A veteran from Massachusetts says she was denied fertility treatment because she is married to a woman, filing a discrimination suit against the Department of Veteran Affairs.
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Mass. veteran sues VA, saying she was denied IVF over same-sex marriage
An Air Force veteran of nearly 20 years has filed a class action lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs alleging she was denied reproductive services because she is married to a woman. The lawsuit, filed on Wednesday in a Massachusetts federal court, alleges that plaintiff Ashley Sheffield was denied a referral to receive in vitro fertilization, or IVF,…
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VA failed to probe disparities in disability claims for Black and white veterans, government report says
A government report criticizes the Department of Veterans Affairs over disparities in how disability claims are awarded to Black and white veterans.
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CDC to Probe Whether Polluted Fort Ord Is Linked to Cancers in Veterans
Federal health officials are conducting a new study to determine whether veterans once stationed at a now-shuttered California military base were exposed to dangerously high levels of cancer-causing toxins.