What Do Veterans Need the Most?

Military personnel fight for your rights, and when they return home, they are people who have witnessed many horrors. Most veterans want to come home to an ordinary life. Veterans have gained a lot of skills during their service that can be applied at home. According to Bob Parsons, the transformation to civilian life is not easy, because combat experienced has changed them forever. However, there are organizations doing a lot to help veterans, and there are also some things the individual citizen can do.

Volunteer Transportation

Many veterans need regular medical care for the rest of their lives. Often, they have no way to get to the medical facilities by themselves. Individuals can volunteer to drive a van or other vehicle to give them the transportation they desperately need.

Frequent Flier Miles

When veterans are being treated in a veteran medical facility, donated frequent flyer miles will allow family members to be close to their loved-one during treatment for injury or disease. If you are accumulating frequent flyer miles, you can donate them to organizations that will use them for this purpose. These organizations may also receive household items, to help veteran’s families.

Holiday Cards

There are certain organizations that sell holiday cards and donate the proceeds to veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In some cases, the proceeds also go to programs in which dogs are trained as companions for veterans with PTSD.

Build a Home

Some veterans come home with severe injuries and require homes that are outfitted for physical disabilities. You can donate money, or volunteer to help renovate old homes or build new ones at no cost to the veteran.

Help the Homeless

Unfortunately, there are veterans who come back and have no place to go. They are often found as homeless people on the streets and require food, shelter, clothing and medical attention. You can help by contacting the Veterans Administration and inform them about a vet who is at risk of being homeless or about a homeless vet you have seen on the street.

Send a Package

Packages are regularly sent to active military troops as well as veterans. Your donation pays for a package. If giving a donation is difficult, you can participate in a letter-writing program where you hand write a letter of gratitude to a veteran or active military person for defending and protecting your freedoms.

If veterans get a decent chance to work, stay healthy and have a home and clothing, there is much less chance they will end up in jail. When they don’t have any help or options, they may turn to crime and drugs. Every citizen can do something to help veterans have a better life when they return home.

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Fleet Program for Mobile Employees

How do companies make their employees stay for a long employment period? I should have good answers for that as I’ve stayed with my former job for 16 years. Of course reasons should always come from the company’s management and how they treated their employees. I was employed in my last work in my early twenties and I guess I was happy enough that I stayed quite long. Well I almost spent the longest period of my career with my very kind employer who treated me with a good heart and trained me in different fields of work that I never learned in college. I almost rounded up all departments of his company and have been employed in his two companies when I finally decided to resign and prioritize my family over my work.

My boss has been good to me and during my years in his telecommunications company I’ve experienced how they give sales incentives, communication allowances and Fleet program for our employees who are always on the go. Our marketing staff and account managers who always travel and visit clients were given vehicle reimbursement allowance every payday. They use their personal vehicle in meeting their clients, in products demo, testing and all activities regarding our clients.

As I was incharge of Accounting Department I was the one who check and audit their reimbursement and sometimes it’s hard to do it if the employees are too many. Well creating a database for reimbursement purposes seems to be the answer to that and that’s where companies like Corporate Reimbursement Services, Inc (CRS) comes in because they do consultancy job for companies who need customized programs for mobile employees. They make things easy for companies and it also saves them costs on issuing cars to employees. They will make calculations for reimbursement rates as per mileage run, current gasoline price and other contributing factors. It will make things beneficial for both employer and employees.

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Looking Into Employees’ Benefits

In my previous job I’ve supervised a lot of things. I was assigned as Accounting and Billing Supervisor and due to multi-tasking needs of the company I did the responsibilities of Administrative and Human Resource Officer. I handled big responsibilities that even I can’t believe I can but also learned in the process. It was a small telecommunications company and when our HR Consultant went to Cebu to teach I was tasked to handle the human resource department.

Since I was with the same employer for more than a decade then I simply accepted the job without complaining. I’m the type of person who likes challenges and it’s indeed a challenge to handle accounting and personnel when my college degree is computer engineering. When I looked back at those years I think the most precious are the knowledge I gathered from handling field of work that I didn’t learned in college.

Looking back I can say that since I’m one of the pioneers in my boss’ small telco company I almost started everything there. I was trained by an Accounting Associate and when she resigned I took over and hired two Accounting staff to unload the payroll and payables from me. I can only supervise them as I handle carrier settlements. Though we have accounting staff I’m mainly responsible with the computation of employees’ incentives and checks the monthly reimbursement of transportation and Car Allowance which is really fine with me as we’ve started with few marketing staff only. They’re the one who were given corporate reimbursement privilege as they deal mainly with clients and they don’t stay in the office they‘re always on the go for meeting up prospect clients and demo testing.

But I know if there are plenty of mobile employees who will avail of vehicle reimbursement the company should need the services of Corporate Reimbursement Services, Inc. who will customize reimbursement program for vehicle. They provide easy calculations of reimbursement rates according to current gas price, mileage record and many other factors. It’s a great help to the company as giving car allowances to employees saves them a lot compared to issuing each mobile employees a car to use for their meeting and dealing with clients. It also helps the employees to use their car at no cost to them regarding gasoline expenses. It’s still convenient to use your own car rather than the company’s car.

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