(Spirit Lake)– Our series highlighting various offices in the Dickinson county courthouse continues.
This week’s installment focuses on the Veteran’s Affairs Office. The Director of that office, Anne Miller, recently visited with reporter John Adams, Sr. She urges veterans to register for healthcare benefits through her office…(click here for actuality.) “Veterans can get enrolled in the VA healthcare system by applying through my office and they can contact me, I have the criteria that’s required to get enrolled in the VA healthcare system. We’re fortunate to have a clinic here in Spirit Lake with a wonderful staff. So I encourage any veteran to contact me to see if they can get enrolled in the healthcare system. We also file claims with the VA for either service-connected compensation or non-service connected pension. This is for veterans and their dependents, widows, widowers, etcetera. Again I encourage people to contact me to discuss these options”. How many county veterans are using your services, and if some are not, how can they take advantage of these offerings? “We see on average about 155 to 160 veterans every month, either to file claims or to get enrolled in the healthcare system, or update the status of their current claims. I encourage again for veterans to contact me at my office at 712-336-0883. And if in the past you were told that you didn’t qualify for certain things, things do change
within the VA. So give me a call. We’ll see if you qualify for the healthcare system or for compensation or pension and we’ll take it from there.”
For KUOO radio news, this is John Adams.
