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A Counsellor Post Won by the Women Veterans Subcommittee

A subcommittee of women veterans pressed for, and an Act funded, a veterans services counsellor post inside the state veterans office whose primary focus is women veterans. The subcommittee itself dates from 2013 and the task force behind it from 2011.

Verified August 23, 2026

What this benefit is

A subcommittee of women veterans pressed for, and an Act funded, a veterans services counsellor post inside the state veterans office whose primary focus is women veterans. The subcommittee itself dates from 2013 and the task force behind it from 2011.

What it's worth: A funded counsellor post inside the state office, focused on women veterans

  • The office states that Act 209 appropriates funds for the establishment of a veterans services counsellor IV position within the state veterans office to assist all veterans, with a primary focus on female veterans, and for the Vietnam veterans fiftieth anniversary commemoration.
  • The post was an ongoing objective of the Women Veterans Subcommittee, which the office says it and the governor’s advisory board on veteran services supported.
  • The subcommittee was established in 2013 to investigate areas of concern identified in a 2013 report to the legislature and to continue the work of serving women veterans.
  • The report came from a task force of 13 women veterans and serving women created by the state veterans office in April 2011, following a Senate resolution directing the federal veterans department and the state office to develop comprehensive programmes for women veterans and women on active duty.
  • The subcommittee hosted the first annual statewide women veterans conference at a military medical centre on 14 November 2015.
  • The post assists all veterans; the women veterans focus is a priority within it rather than an exclusive remit.
  • No women-specific health, housing or childcare entitlement is described on the page.

Who is entitled to it

  • You served, which is the gate here.
  • Your home is in this state.

Not sure whether that describes you?

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How to claim it

  1. 1Ask the state veterans office for the counsellor whose primary focus is women veterans, by that description. The post assists all veterans, so asking generally gets you a general answer.
  2. 2Ask whether the subcommittee is meeting and when the next statewide women veterans event runs — the subcommittee is the body that produced the post and it works by convening.
  3. 3Do not expect an entitlement. What the Act funded is a person and a focus, not a payment or an exemption.
  4. 4For women-specific health care, the route is the federal system. The state page describes advocacy and a counsellor, not clinical provision.
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Documents you will need
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No renewal
Once granted it does not need renewing.
Worth knowingThe Act’s year and its current funding status were not established — the page names the Act and what it appropriated, not whether the post is filled today. A page describing a post is not proof that someone is sitting in it, which is a lesson this corpus has learned elsewhere.

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