{"id":21318,"date":"2010-11-26T09:33:30","date_gmt":"2010-11-26T13:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21318"},"modified":"2010-11-26T09:33:30","modified_gmt":"2010-11-26T13:33:30","slug":"dva-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21318","title":{"rendered":"DVA warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ToothlessDawg sends us a copy of a letter he got from the Department of Veterans&#8217; Affairs General Councils Office lifted from <a href=\"http:\/\/patriotsforamerica.ning.com\/forum\/topics\/warning-to-veterans-forwarded?xg_source=activity\">Patriots for America<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>WARNING TO VETERANS<\/p>\n<p>Forwarded by Kevin Secor, VSO Liaison, Office of the Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs.<\/p>\n<p>An organization called Veterans Affairs Services (VAS) is providing benefit and general information on VA and gathering personal information on veterans.<\/p>\n<p>This organization is not affiliated with VA in any way.<\/p>\n<p>VAS may be gaining access to military personnel through their close resemblance to the VA name and seal.  Our Legal Counsel has requested that we coordinate with DoD to inform military installations, particularly mobilization sites, of this group and their lack of affiliation or endorsement by VA to provide any services.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, GC requests that if you have any examples of VAS acts that violate chapter 59 of Title 38 United States Code, such as VAS employees assisting veterans in the preparation and presentation of claims for benefits, please pass any additional information to Mr.Daugherty at the address below.<\/p>\n<p>Michael G. Daugherty<br \/>\nStaff Attorney<br \/>\nDepartment of Veterans Affairs<br \/>\nOffice of General Counsel (022G2)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not aware of any evidence that VAS is involved in anything sneaky or underhanded, but forewarned is forearmed. Even though their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vaservices.org\/us\/index.html\">website<\/a> clearly states that they are not affiliated with the government, some people people may mistake them for the DVA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ToothlessDawg sends us a copy of a letter he got from the Department of Veterans&#8217; Affairs &hellip; <a title=\"DVA warning\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21318\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DVA warning<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}