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Sink works to ensure Florida vets have access to benefits

By Emily on 03/05/2010 @ 01:32 PM

Tags: Alex Sink, FL-Gov

Alex Sink

Florida's Chief Financial Officer, Alex Sink, announced an initiative earlier this week to make sure the state's veterans know about and have access to the benefits available to them.

The program, "Florida Connects Vets," aims to make sure the 1.7 million veterans in the state are part of the Veteran Administration's database of former service members, making sure they're informed of the resources designed for them. Currently, only 700,000 of the state's vets are in the database. And, according to the St. Petersburg Times, an estimated $1 billion in veterans' benefits go unclaimed by Floridians.

Here's what Alex, the daughter of WWII Marine veteran, had to say about the program:

"This is the perfect example of how we can work together across departments to get more done, and at no extra cost to taxpayers.... These brave men and women deserve our respect and gratitude, and they deserve to know about all the benefits they can access. We need to take care of them when they come home."

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