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President Obama signed the Veteran’s Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2011 on November 9, 2011 which increases the rates of veterans’ disability compensation, additional compensation for dependents, the clothing allowance for certain disabled veterans, and dependency and indemnity compensation for surviving spouses and children.  The COLA increase will be the same as Social Security, which is 3.6%. Attorney Laurie Ohall works with Veterans and
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On December 17, 2010, President Obama signed into law the 2010 Tax Relief Act which has provisions dealing with income tax, estate tax and unemployment insurance provisions.  What is important about this new law is that it is a temporary measure and, for the most part, only impacts 2011 and 2012 – in other words, it is a band aid.  All the Bush-era tax
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