Morano asks about certificate of eligibility details and benefits
Morano asks about the certificate of eligibility. Nicole explains it would cover four city benefits requiring DD-214 presentation, allowing veterans to present a certificate instead of a discharge paperwork showing DADT-related status.
One thing that caught our ear was the certificate of eligibility, because it was new, at least to me.
What exactly would this certificate do?
So this certificate would be able to, there's about four different city benefits that are executed on a city level that someone needs to provide their DD-214 for.
So they may still be able to receive the benefit even though they are dishonorably discharged, but there's a lot of shame in presenting that when you do have, you know, you're a dishonorable discharge for under don't ask, don't tell.
So what we're doing on the city level is for those benefits where that DD-214 needs to be presented, instead of them having to present that DD-214, they would
present the certificate that would be given out by our agency where information about service would be verified from our agency so that they don't need to provide that to the different city agencies.
Do you know which four benefits that that would unlock?
Yeah, so that would unlock different residency points for civil service exams through DCAS.
There's NICER's pension buyback.
There's Department of Finance for tax benefits.
And I believe there's two different types for Department of Finance.