WHO: Veterans of Middlesex County can ask questions to Veteran Services Officer's of the New Jersey Department of Military and Veterans' Affairs through Veterans Day.

WHAT: The outreach to ‘those who served' in malls allows veterans and their families of inquire about benefits that they may be eligible to receive from the state and federal governments

WHEN: November 9, at 3 p.m.

WHERE: Menlo Park Mall is located on Route 1 South and Parsonage Road in Edison, New Jersey

DETAILS: With Veterans Day on Saturday, 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 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on November 9, 10 and 11.  The kiosk will be set-up in the Menlo Park Mall center court.

The ‘One Mall a Month' schedule for 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 12,000 Veterans and assist them in filing their claims if they choose to do so.