Veterans Groups Object To State Wanting Admin Fee From Military Family Relief Fund
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Indiana Department of Veterans Affairs Director Dennis Wimer discusses the Military Family Relief Fund in a Senate committee hearing.
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Some veterans groups are upset with legislation that would allow the Indiana Department of Veterans Affairs to take money from the state’s Military Family Relief Fund for administrative costs.
The Military Family Relief Fund gets most of its money from specialty license plates. And the state Department of Veterans Affairs wants to take up to 15 percent of that funding to pay for administrative costs in managing the fund. That would be more than $200,000 a year.
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