"The Reserve Income Replacement Program (RIRP) was developed to provide specific payments to eligible members of the National Guard and Reserve who are involuntary serving on active duty (the term active duty includes full-time National Guard duty) and who are experiencing a monthly active duty income differential of more than $50.00, as determined by the member’s Service Secretary."
for Active Duty and Title 10 Military Members/Family
The Department of Defense has partnered with the Armed Services YMCA to fund memberships at participating YMCA’s throughout the United States and Puerto Rico for the following groups:
** Families of joint deployed National Guard and Reserve personnel (Army/Navy/Air Force/Marine Corps)
** Active duty personnel and their families at independent duty stations
** Active duty families assigned to newly established joint bases
** Relocated spouse and family members of deployed active duty personnel
This program is for Guard / Reserve families while spouse is deployed – including 3 months for spouse pre and post deployment. You MUST use the YMCA at least once a month in a six month period in order to be renewed.
FITNESS FACILITY MEMBERSHIPS
The DoD will also buy down memberships at local fitness facilities (e.g. Gold’s Gym, Bally’s/24 Hour Fitness, etc.) for single active duty personnel at independent duty stations.
RESPITE CHILD CARE
Deployed Guard and Reserve personnel and independent duty personnel with children up to age 12 will be authorized free respite child care up to 32 hours per month, per child in YMCA facilities in states approved by the DoD. Please check with your local YMCA as this program is currently only in 10 states at certain locations. (PA and NY are 2 of the 10)
My house could be carpeted instead of tiled and laminated.
All flat surfaces, clothing, furniture, and cars would be free of hair.
When the doorbell rings, it wouldn't sound like a kennel.
When the doorbell rings, I could get to the door without wading through fuzzy bodies who beat me there.
I could sit on the couch and my bed the way I wanted, with out taking into consideration how much space several fur bodies would need to get comfortable.
I would have money, and no guilt to go on a real vacation. I would not be on a first-name basis with 6 veterinarians, as I put their yet unborn grandkids through college.
The most used words in my vocabulary would not be: out, sit, down, come, no, stay, and leave it ALONE. My house would not be cordoned off into zones with baby gates or barriers.
I would not talk 'baby talk'. 'Eat your din din'. 'Yummy yummy for the tummy'... My house would not look like a day care center, toys everywhere.
My pockets would not contain things like poop bags, treats and an extra leash.
I would no longer have to spell the words B-A-L-L,, W-A-L-K,, T-R-E-A-T,, O-U-T,, G-O,, R-I-D-E,, C-O-O-K-I-E
I would not have as many leaves INSIDE my house as outside.
I would not look strangely at people who think having ONE dog/cat ties them down too much.
I'd look forward to spring and the rainy season instead of dreading 'mud' season.
I would not have to answer the question 'Why do you have so many animals?' from people who will never have the joy in their lives of knowing they are loved unconditionally by someone as close to an angel as they will ever get.
How EMPTY my life would be
~Author unknown~
OH NO! NOT ANOTHER DOG TO TRAIN!! What's a cat to do?
Our newest family member, also from 11th Hour Rescue in Rockaway, NJ.
If you read a recent front page story of the SF Chronicle , you would have read about a female humpback whale that had become entangled in a spider web of crab traps and lines. She was weighted down by hundreds of pounds of traps that caused her to struggle to stay afloat. She also had hundreds of yards of line rope wrapped around her body, her tail, her torso, a line tugging in her mouth.
A fisherman spotted her just east of the Farallon Islands (outside the Golden Gate ) and radioed an environmental group for help.
Within a few hours, the rescue team arrived and determined that she was so bad off, the only way to save her was to dive in and untangle her.
They worked for about an hour with curved knives and eventually freed her.
When she was free, the divers say she swam in what seemed like joyous circles.
She then came back to each and every diver, one at a time, and nudged them, pushed them gently around...she was thanking them. Some said it was the most incredibly beautiful experience of their lives.
The guy who cut the rope out of her mouth said her eyes were following him the whole time, and he will never be the same.
May you, and all those you love, be so blessed and fortunate to be surrounded by people who will help you get untangled
from the things that are binding you.
And, may you always know the joy of giving and receiving gratitude.
The VA claims that they are no longer representing clients as advocates w/their mortgage companies but have instead provided the mortgage companies a financial incentive to work it out with the home owner. I would suggest you ask the VA what to refer to their incentive program as to determine if the Wells Fargo contact person is aware of it.
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For the thousands of fugitives across American who have no history of violence, Fugitive Safe Surrender offers an opportunity to take their first and most crucial step toward community re-entry....
Fugitive Safe Surrenderis a unique, creative, and highly successful, initiative that encourages persons wanted for non-violent felony or misdemeanor crimes to voluntarily surrender to the law in a faith-based or other neutral setting.
Managed by the United States Marshals Service as a community re-entry program for wanted non-violent offenders, Fugitive Safe Surrenderoffers individuals with felony and misdemeanor warrants the ability to turn themselves in to law enforcement and have their cases adjudicated in a safe and non-violent environment.
The goal of Fugitive Safe Surrender is to reduce the risk to law enforcement officers who pursue fugitives, to the neighborhoods in which they hide, and to the fugitives themselves. Authorized by Congress in July 2006, Fugitive Safe Surrender is believed to be the first program of its kind in the nation.
For more information about Fugitive Safe Surrender,please contact the National Program Coordinator at (202) 616-1040. For media inquiries, please contact the Office of Public Affairs at (202) 307-9065.
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SECTION 13:ASSESSMENT OF VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION NEEDS
As soon as eligibility has been determined and to the extent necessary, the Rehabilitation Counselor conducts an Assessment of Vocational Rehabilitation Needs (AVRN) to determine, as appropriate in each case, the nature and scope of needed services.The assessment and subsequent IPE must address the participant’s barrier to employment and identify methods for removing or diminishing the barriers
I wholeheartedly agree. Your children will not remember what they got for Christmas last year but you can bet they will remember being cold, hungry or homeless.
People, please get your priorities straight and meet their basic needs before toys.
As a presidential candidate, Mr. Obama said, “I pledged my commitment to resolving this issue, and I am proud that my administration has taken this step today.”
For the agreement to become final, Congress must enact legislation and the federal courts must then sign off on it. Administration officials said they hoped those two steps would be completed in the next few months.
Under the settlement, the government would pay $1.4 billion to compensate the Indians for their claims of historical accounting irregularities and any accusation that federal officials mismanaged the administration of the land itself over the years.
Each member of the class would receive a check for $1,000, and the rest of the money would be distributed according to the land owned. In addition, legal fees, to be determined by a judge, would be paid from that fund.
The EnCorps Teachers Program is a nonprofit that represents the innovative public-private partnership dedicated to increasing the number of much-needed math and science teachers in California’s public middle and high schools.
Developed with guidance from the Governor’s Committee on Educational Excellence, EnCorps helps math and science professionals transition into teaching in low income schools throughout California.
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in response to The Sunset Hero...That was a very empathetic heartfelt reply except for the dishonorable discharge remark. It is truly a shame but his vet status may not have netted him any other alternative employment. Please offer him the same benefit of doubt that you have extended so graciously to others.
(Nov. 16) -- It's federal law: All seriously injured emergency and trauma patients must be given equal lifesaving care, whether or not they can pay for it. But that's not happening, according to a new report. The study, conducted by Children's Hospital Boston research fellow Dr. Heather Rosen and colleagues from three other hospitals, found that uninsured trauma victims ages 18 to 30 are dying at an annual rate 89 percent higher than insured victims with identically severe injuries.
As the health reform tornado continues to swirl on Capitol Hill, the data could provide fresh ammunition for those pushing for expanded health insurance coverage.
The study, published today in the Archives of Surgery, examines the survival rates for patients brought to about 900 U.S. trauma centers between 2002 and 2006, analyzing some 690,000 patients who had suffered penetrating trauma -- such as wounds inflicted by a gun or knife -- or blunt trauma from vehicle crashes and falls. Earlier research found 18,000 extra deaths a year among uninsured victims of such injuries. Rosen and the other researchers chose to focus on the 18-to-30-year-old subset because they had fewer existing conditions -- comorbidity -- that muddy the evaluation of the cause of death.
Illinois Veterans will get 100 percent of the net proceeds from a special state lottery game. The new Stars and Stripes scratch-off tickets will be on sale for about six months as part of the Veterans' Cash program. The state expects to raise more than $1 million from the new lottery tickets. For more information, including how to apply for an Illinois Veterans Cash Grant, visit the Illinois Department of Veterans' Affairs website.
I appreciate Starshine's defense but there isn't a need to be defensive. Most programs for D/V survivors are accessible once you make the first connection with agencies which oversee D/V services, such as legal services, dental and plastic surgery reconstruction and
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