{"id":36281,"date":"2013-06-17T16:30:29","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T20:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36281"},"modified":"2013-06-17T16:30:29","modified_gmt":"2013-06-17T20:30:29","slug":"ohio-vets-dont-forget-your-bonus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36281","title":{"rendered":"Ohio vets; don&#8217;t forget your bonus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scott sends us a link from the <a href=\"http:\/\/dvs.ohio.gov\/Portals\/0\/library\/odvs\/news\/archive\/2013\/BonusRelease0523.pdf\">Ohio Department of Veterans&#8217; Services<\/a> (.pdf file) which announces that;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ohio has a unique way of thanking these recent veterans and those who serve. It\u2019s the Ohio Veterans Bonus, for service given during the times of the Persian Gulf War and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>But the Ohio Veterans Bonus won\u2019t be around forever \u2013 the deadline for Persian Gulf War era veterans to apply is December 31, 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Veterans of the Iraq War era have until December 31, 2014 to apply. No deadline has been announced for veterans of the Afghanistan War era.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The bonus pays $100 a month to veterans who served in the Persian Gulf theater, or in the countries of Afghanistan or Iraq, up to a maximum of $1,000. For veterans who served elsewhere, the payment is $50 a month up to a $500 maximum. Veterans medically discharged due to injuries sustained in combat can receive $1,000, plus up to $500 for months of service elsewhere. Family members of those killed in action or who died from disease as a result of their in-theater service can receive a bonus of $5,000 plus whatever the service member was eligible for, up to a total of $6,500.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s not a handout &#8211; you earned it so go get it before the state wastes it on free cell phones for pimps or something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott sends us a link from the Ohio Department of Veterans&#8217; Services (.pdf file) which announces &hellip; <a title=\"Ohio vets; don&#8217;t forget your bonus\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36281\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ohio vets; don&#8217;t forget your bonus<\/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-36281","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\/36281","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=36281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}