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Military Times
Military retirees and veterans benefits recipients will see a 1.6% cost-of-living boost in their payouts starting in December, nearly half of the increase they received last year.
Officials from the Social Security Administration announced the recent COLA boost, based on inflation and consumer spending calculations over the last few months. The increase will go into effect for about 69 million Social Security beneficiaries in coming months, most in January 2020.
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Federal News Network
Some 3.7 million veterans lie interred in cemeteries operated by the Army or the Department of Veterans Affairs. Their markers give only names and the years bracketing their lives. Now the VA's National Cemetery Administration recently launched a project to give the deceased vets a new life online, where visitors can find out more about who they were.
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Task & Purpose
Best Buy's corporate culture is a great environment for people of diverse backgrounds, including military veterans. Not only do they encourage veterans to apply with the help of the military skills translator on the Career Portal website that helps translate military experience into civilian leadership terms, but they also actively support employees in the National Guard or Reserves who need to take time away from work for drill weekends and deployments.
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VAA Security Inc.
We're looking for all military personnel (Active, Retired, National Guard & Reserves, etc.) of all branches who seek an invaluable service in security that protect our clients and uphold a safe environment to each of their locations. We provide great pay and flexible hours.
You may use your existing security license, and/or, if not, we will provide classroom training to obtain your 8-hour and 16-hour certifications for eventual approval of your license via state application for armed and unarmed security.
Apply Today! Send an email inquiry to rworks@vetsaa.org, or call 1-800-590-2173. All veterans MUST be registered with the VAA organization to obtain gainful employment.
VAA Security, Inc. is a subsidiary of the Veterans Association of America, Inc. that provides detailed training for security guards/officer openings throughout the continental US.
Click Here for further information and/or for membership enrollment.
FOX Business
Heroes need hiring.
About 1,300 military service members, spouses and children transition into civilian communities every day, according to the Department of Defense. And just one in four veterans said they had a job lined up after discharge, while others have said it can take up to a year to find employment. What's worse, more than 800,000 veterans are unemployed.
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Federal News Network
In the wake of a report from the Defense Department showing the highest active-duty suicide rates in five years, the Pentagon may need to move faster on implementing new prevention programs, and take a harder look at the nascent years of its troops. Recently, DoD released its annual suicide numbers. Five hundred and forty one service members died by suicide in 2018; that is an increase from 18.5 to 24.8 suicides per 100,000 troops from 2013 to 2018.
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Newswise
Post-traumatic stress disorder, sleep disturbance and alcohol problems are common among military veterans, and often occur together, with a large toll on physical and mental health. A new study published in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research examines the interplay of PTSD symptoms and disturbed sleep, and how they affect the risk of alcohol problems over time.
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PsychCentral
Military veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or concussion are much more likely to develop REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD) — a thrashing form of sleep behavior — compared to the general population, according to a new study published in the journal SLEEP.
Next, the researchers from the VA Portland Health Care System and Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) want to investigate whether RBD might provide an early signal of neurodegenerative conditions, such as Parkinson's disease.
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NutraIngredients-usa
A retrospective study published in the Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition found a link among military personnel between low Vitamin D status and depression.
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Inc.
When it comes to time, we live in an age of paradox. Time studies, as explored by Judy Wajcman, Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics, in her book Pressed For Time, indicate that we work about as much, if not less, than our contemporaries 50 years ago.
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