{"id":268,"date":"2015-07-27T10:51:01","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T14:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/?p=268"},"modified":"2024-02-13T08:23:19","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T13:23:19","slug":"congress-approves-vet-id-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/congress-approves-vet-id-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress Approves Vet ID Card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Congress has approved a bill allowing all veterans in America to receive an official identification card. The bill now goes to President Obama for his signature. The card allows veterans to document their service without carrying around sensitive personal information. A form currently used by many veterans to prove their veteran status contains Social Security numbers and other details that advocates warn could put veterans at risk of identity theft. For more details, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2015\/07\/08\/congress-passes-law-creating-id-card-for-veterans.html\">this Military.com story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Congress has approved a bill allowing all veterans in America to receive an official identification card. The bill now goes to President Obama for his signature. The card allows veterans to document their service without carrying around sensitive personal information. A form currently used by many veterans to prove their veteran status contains &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/congress-approves-vet-id-card\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Congress Approves Vet ID Card<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\r\n<title>Congress Approves Vet ID Card - Veterans Services<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/congress-approves-vet-id-card\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Congress Approves Vet ID Card - Veterans Services\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The U.S. Congress has approved a bill allowing all veterans in America to receive an official identification card. 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