Research - Rehabilitation - Re-Employment
Letting an ID card expire, though, puts a spouse at the mercy of clerks and cashiers who may not know the intricacies of the ID card system. However, the DA-4137 should have been sufficient.
Only military retirees are first issued ID cards with "indefinite" expiration dates. Military spouses and widows over age 75 also receive a "permanent" ID card. They wont keep privileges forever - if they remarry they are required to surrender their ID card - but if their status remains unchanged, there is no need to renew after age 75. If younger than age 75, ID cards will be reissued every four years.
I hope this helps.
Shaft Notes
Rep. Steve Buyer, Indiana Republican and ranking member on the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs, recently reached out to Democratic leaders to bring about a bipartisan legislative effort to assist the record-level numbers of unemployed veterans. The most recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows 968,000 veterans are unemployed compared with 807,000 last year. The data also show an alarming 18.3 percent unemployment rate for veterans between ages 20 and 24.
In December 2009, Mr. Buyer introduced H.R. 4220, the Promoting Jobs for Veterans Act of 2009, which includes the following provisions to help veterans find meaningful employment and career opportunities:
- Re-authorizes the VA Veteran-Owned Small Business Loan Guarantee Program which would guarantee loans up to $500,000;
- Creates a new Troops-to-Teachers program to pay new teachers who are veterans, and teaching in a rural area, a $500 monthly stipend;
- Increases the Veterans Workforce Investment Program authorization from $9 million to $20 million;
- Increases the Vocational Rehabilitation monthly stipend to an amount equal to the maximum housing stipend under the post-9/11 GI Bill;
- Creates a two-year paid VA internship program for up to 2,000 vocational rehabilitation participants;
- Provides a ZIP code-based housing stipend for unemployed veterans participating in a VA-approved on-the-job/apprenticeship program
- Establishes a VA Web site link to reputable veteran employment Web sites and nationally advertise the "Vet-success" Web site created by the Vocation Rehabilitation Program.
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