Puerto Rican veterans shorted on benefits From: suntimes.com
Tagged: book, Puerto Rican, Puerto Rico
Military widows and veterans in Puerto Rico receive fewer health benefits than their counterparts in the United States, even though Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens and serve shoulder-to-shoulder with their countrymen in Iraq and Afghanistan.
That means that, like all island spouses whose soldier husbands or wives were killed in the latest U.S. wars, the widow of Army Sgt. Jeffrey Michael Rada Morales would get less than fully paid health insurance — simply for living in Puerto Rico.”*
also check out: Did You Know? Puerto Ricans who work in the US and move back to Puerto Rico can’t get their Social Security benefits (that they accrued during their stay in the US) – the original article is gone and I couldn’t find it in the archives – This is one of the most important facets of HispanicTips that is often overlooked – it is an archive, a record, a history – it is disturbing that articles, information seem to disappear. I would hazard a guess that at least 5% of the articles/information collected here on HispanicTips has vanished from the source’s sites.
Posted on:
July 17th, 2008
Curation from Tomás
Filed Under: Essentials, Eye Openers, Health, People
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