Federal Government Offers More Fraud and Scam Advice
The surge of new VA benefits have made veterans, servicemembers and their families targets for bad actors, more and more. The result has been recent federal, intragovernmental efforts to provide better knowledge and tools to avoid fraud and scams because these bad actors who have become increasingly sophisticated. The most recent development, and probably the best one-stop effort, comes with the VA’s August 2024 announcement of the launch of VSAFE.gov and a call center/fraud hotline at 1-833-388-7273. The array of topics covered is vast — it even addresses romance :-).
The measures were launched as a part of the White House desire to give veterans and their families tools to protect themselves, a way of reporting fraud, and a means of getting additional assistance by combining resources from the Departments of Defense, Education, and State and the Federal Trade Commission, Federal Communications Commission, Internal Revenue Service, Social Security Administration, and the Office of Management and Budget. The result is a no “wrong door” approach to access reporting tools and resources to combat fraud.
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As of 11 August 2024