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Bilirakis Condemns Erdogan's Actions
Today, the Health Subcommittee reviewed a variety of bills designed to help prevent suicide and improve access to mental health treatment. Congressman Gus Bilirakis, a long-standing champion of mental health reform, is the co-author of three of these bipartisan measures. The Effective Suicide Screening in the Emergency Department Act helps to create protocols for identifying, assessing and treating individuals in the E.R. who may be at risk for suicide. The second Bilirakis bill, the STANDUP Act, encourages schools to expand evidence-based suicide prevention training in schools.
Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Representatives Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) and Mike Levin (D-CA), Chair and Ranking Member of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity, introduced bipartisan, bicameral legislation to expand and strengthen Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) services for homeless veterans during the COVID-19 pandemic.
1- You sent out a tool for constituents to back date their claims. But then there is a message from CONNECT that says doing so may delay processing of their application. Should constituents backdate their claims or will they automatically get retroactive payments?
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