S. 1204
Adds spouses to veterans job services program
Makes spouses of service members who died, are missing, or have lasting disabilities able to get career and employment help through a Labor Department program for disabled veterans.
- Program offers career and employment services and is run by the Labor Department
- Spouses of those who died while serving or from a service-related disability become eligible
- Also covers spouses of those missing, captured, or held by a foreign government over 90 days
- Also covers spouses of those with a total permanent service-related disability
Passed the Senate · House's turn