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Filipino Veterans Equity Compensation Fund Created
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More than 60 years after the Rescission Act, Congress created the Filipino Veterans Equity Compensation Fund (in the 2009 Recovery Act), granting one-time payments to surviving Filipino WWII veterans-a partial redress for benefits long denied.
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Sources
- obamawhitehouse.archives.gov obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2013/07/09/recognizing-extraordinary-contribution-filipino-veterans
- va.gov va.gov/centerforminorityveterans/docs/cmvdata/fvec_faq_sep09.pdf