{"id":10423,"date":"2024-09-24T19:25:53","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T19:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2024\/09\/24\/not-a-scam-va-texting-veterans-to-encourage-them-to-apply-for-earned-benefits\/136741\/"},"modified":"2024-09-24T19:25:53","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T19:25:53","slug":"not-a-scam-va-texting-veterans-to-encourage-them-to-apply-for-earned-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/not-a-scam-va-texting-veterans-to-encourage-them-to-apply-for-earned-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"Not a scam: VA texting veterans to encourage them to apply for earned benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/not-a-scam-va-texting-veterans-to-encourage-them-to-apply-for-earned-benefits\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/0401editorial-560x374.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/not-a-scam-va-texting-veterans-to-encourage-them-to-apply-for-earned-benefits.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Screenshot_20240922_160147_Messages-202x400.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/not-a-scam-va-texting-veterans-to-encourage-them-to-apply-for-earned-benefits-1.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/GettyImages-1290751706-560x384.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/not-a-scam-va-texting-veterans-to-encourage-them-to-apply-for-earned-benefits-2.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/not-a-scam-va-texting-veterans-to-encourage-them-to-apply-for-earned-benefits-4.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"large-10 large-centered small-12 columns\">\n<p>This story \u2014 a somewhat personal one \u2014 starts as many do nowadays, with an unsolicited text message from an unknown number.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re anything like me, then you would probably react much as I did when the text from \u201c468311\u201d came in early one morning last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfghanistan Veteran: You\u2019re likely eligible for VA monthly compensation. Visit VA.gov\/PACT or call 1-800-698-2411 &amp; press 8, then 2,\u201d the message read, the number and website hyperlinked.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2024\/09\/24\/not-a-scam-va-texting-veterans-to-encourage-them-to-apply-for-earned-benefits\/\">Read the rest of this story on TheKnow.DenverPost.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story \u2014 a somewhat personal one \u2014 starts as many do nowadays, with an unsolicited text message from an unknown number. If you\u2019re anything like me, then you would probably react much as I did when the text from \u201c468311\u201d came in early one morning last week. \u201cAfghanistan Veteran: You\u2019re likely eligible for VA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2435,9,6557,441,1,3,160,61,1736],"tags":[2436,6560,3015,2738],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10423"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}