{"id":14767,"date":"2019-12-17T09:29:43","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T14:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14767"},"modified":"2019-12-17T09:33:17","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T14:33:17","slug":"paws-act-puppies-assisting-wounded-servicemembers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14767","title":{"rendered":"PAWS, Act &#8211; Puppies Assisting Wounded Servicemembers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With an estimated 20 veterans committing suicide a day, a new bill was introduced into Congress to help reduce this tragic number. PAWS, Act, Puppies Assisting Wounded Servicemembers would require the Department of Veterans Affairs to offer $25,000 vouchers to veterans suffering with PTSD for use at qualifying nonprofits.\u00a0 The VA only supports service dogs for use in mobility issues, but not in cases that only involve mental health conditions.\u00a0\u00a0 Read article <a href=\"https:\/\/taskandpurpose.com\/a-new-bill-would-cover-the-cost-of-service-dogs-for-veterans-with-ptsd\">here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Vietnam-M-e1460577484381.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-2586\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Vietnam-M-e1460577484381-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"289\" height=\"289\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With an estimated 20 veterans committing suicide a day, a new bill was introduced into Congress to help reduce this<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislative-update","category-veterans-benefits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14767"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14773,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14767\/revisions\/14773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}