New Student Veteran Renter Protection Act Unveiled |
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Written by State Senate Democrats |
Monday, 01 July 2019 18:50 |
http://newiprogressive.com/images/stories/S5/iraq-leaving-260.jpg MADISON – In an effort to protect student veterans across the state of Wisconsin, Rep. Staush Gruszynski (D-Green Bay), Rep. Ken Skowronski (R-Franklin), and Senator Dave Hansen (D-Green Bay) authored LRB-2606/1, The Student Veteran Renter Protection Act. This bipartisan legislation was written in response to the Department of Veteran Affairs’ (VA) failure to properly administer payment of housing allowances to student veterans receiving benefits through the Post-9/11 Educational Assistance Program. This administrative error by the VA delayed payments to as many as 180,000 student veterans nationwide in late 2018, placing veterans’ housing in jeopardy at no fault of their own.
Under current law, a landlord may give a tenant who is late in paying rent a notice to vacate within at least five days. Under this bill, student veterans who receive housing allowances from the VA and who notify their landlord that they are receiving housing allowances would be given a 30 day grace period if they show documentation that their allowance has been delayed and the tenant pays the rent within 30 days after the notice from the landlord is received. As of 2018, there were a total of 388 student veterans enrolled at UW-Green Bay and 4,769 throughout the entire UW System.
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