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Kansas Office of Veterans Services briefs committee on outreach, PACT Act claims growth, homes and cemetery projects
Summary
Kansas Office of Veterans Services told the Committee on Veterans and Military it serves roughly 180,000 veterans, reported large increases in claims after the PACT Act, outlined outreach activities and mobile clinics, and summarized capital projects including a federally funded $1.3 million Winfield cemetery expansion and completed design work for a new veterans home.
The Kansas Office of Veterans Services (KOVS) briefed the Committee on Veterans and Military on the agency’s operations, statewide veteran population and recent program activity. Agency leadership said the state has about 180,000 veterans and is seeing a significant increase in benefit claims since the federal PACT Act took effect.
General Turner, the agency director, described four primary lines of effort—advising and assisting veterans and their families, claims quality assurance, veteran service organization partnerships, and management of veterans homes and cemeteries. He said partnerships with the VFW and American Legion are central to claims work: “Right now, each of those service organizations receives $500,000 a year,” Turner said, describing a $1,000,000 grant program that the state disperses to veterans service…
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