WHO: Veterans can ask questions of Veteran Services Officers of the New Jersey Department of Military and Veterans Affairs as the department distributes benefit information to ‘those who served' as part of the Veterans Outreach Program.

WHAT: The outreach is to inform veterans and their families of all the benefits that they may be eligible to receive from the state and federal governments.

WHEN:

June 13: 9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

June 14: 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

June 15: 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

June 16: 8:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.

WHERE: The traveling kiosk will be located on the floor of the Convention Center.

DETAILS: This is great opportunity for veterans to find out more about benefits or entitlements that they might not know are available to them.  The kiosk will be staffed by the New Jersey Department of Military and Veterans Affairs.

The Veterans Outreach Program is an effort by the New Jersey Department of Military and Veterans Affairs to talk one-on-one with veterans or their family members about the wide variety and scope of state and federal veterans' benefits.

Ten percent of our nations Veterans receive compensation from the Veterans Administration (VA) for a service-connected disability. Here in New Jersey that number is only eight percent. With 600,000 Veterans in the Garden State, that means that there are some 12,000 who should be receiving compensation but who are not.  The Veterans Outreach Program wants to find these Veterans and assist them in filing their claims if they choose to do so.