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A Florida-based company is charging military veterans as much as $20,000 for help with disability claims, even though the VA has said that may be illegal and the service should be free. But so far nobody's stopping the company and others like it.

Just before his birthday, his song "If Freedom Was Free" was released by Big Machine Label Group and CreatiVets. Locker collaborated with Texas singer-songwriter Bart Crow and duo Johnny and Heidi Bulford.

Veterans will present a letter to the governor on Wednesday in Tallahassee, urging him to reconsider the scheduled Aug. 19 execution of Kayle Bates, a veteran of the U.S. Armed Forces. The letter is signed by more than 130 veterans.

U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Weston, will be bringing Don Williams, a veteran and member of the Social Security Administration staff, as her guest to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address to Congress on Tuesday night.

Spouses of former military members are now fifth in the priority list to be admitted to state veterans' nursing homes.

A Florida Senate panel has backed a proposal that would allow veterans' spouses and, in some cases, the parents of veterans, to qualify to live in state-run long-term care facilities for veterans.

"Florida veterans will definitely feel that impact in a positive way."

Justin Eggen is an award-winning poet and U.S. Marine Corps combat veteran studying war poetry at Florida Atlantic University. He joins us to talk about using poetry to unravel his war experience.

While new claims can be filed afterward, those who make the cutoff could receive additional benefits or compensation backdated to Aug. 10, 2022, when the act was signed.

The Boca Raton-based Grey Team has worked with more than 700 veterans since its founding seven years ago. The center uses a 90-day program of exercise and high-tech machines to help the veterans.

A Florida Department of Veterans Affairs-sponsored committee looked into the needs of women veterans. It recommended more homeless shelters for women vets with children, changes to make veteran nursing homes women-friendly and a state advisory committee that held its first meeting this month.

DeSantis introduced the program last year as a solution to the state's teacher shortage.