{"id":24726,"date":"2025-08-01T09:07:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T13:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24726"},"modified":"2025-08-01T09:07:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T13:07:51","slug":"five-tips-on-how-to-help-homeless-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24726","title":{"rendered":"Five tips on how to help homeless Veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(Source &#8211; news.va.gov)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019ve ever walked down the street and seen a person curled up on a pile of cardboard or passed a row of makeshift tents, you may have thought, \u201cHow does this happen? What life did this person live before I saw them on the street? I want to help, but I don\u2019t know how.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you want to help a Veteran living on the street or in an encampment, here are some safe, useful ways to support them.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/news.va.gov\/141377\/five-tips-on-how-to-help-homeless-veterans\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/news.va.gov\/141377\/five-tips-on-how-to-help-homeless-veterans\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"60\" class=\"wp-image-20064\" style=\"width: 250px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/VA-dept-of-vet-affairs.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/VA-dept-of-vet-affairs.png 418w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/VA-dept-of-vet-affairs-300x72.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Source &#8211; news.va.gov) If you\u2019ve ever walked down the street and seen a person curled up on a pile of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[246,7],"tags":[981,87,245],"class_list":["post-24726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homelessness","category-veterans-benefits","tag-homeless-veteran","tag-veterans","tag-veterans-health-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24726","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=24726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24727,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24726\/revisions\/24727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}