By Associated Press
The state Department of Veterans Affairs is ahead of schedule for a plan that places regional veterans service officers around Arkansas to help veterans with filing disability claims and other services.
The department has relocated veterans service officers to six regions over the past year, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported. Officials said last year that they hoped to have five regional officers in place by 2020.
Officials hope to have an officer in all nine regions of the state by the end of summer 2017.
Before the plan existed, the Regional Benefits Office in North Little Rock served as a centralized location for veterans to get help.
The change is the first of several initiatives planned by the agency’s new leadership, which took over at the beginning of 2015. Retired Col. Mike Ross, who served in the Arkansas National Guard, said that almost all veterans have praised the change.
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