{"id":765,"date":"2020-04-10T08:42:26","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T12:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/veteransagent\/?p=765"},"modified":"2020-04-10T08:52:45","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T12:52:45","slug":"va-debt-management-center-covid-19","status":"public-archive","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/veteransagent\/2020\/04\/10\/va-debt-management-center-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"VA Debt Management Center COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">In response to the current environment with COVID-19, the VA Debt Management Center (DMC) is suspending all actions on Veteran debts under the jurisdiction of the Treasury Department for sixty days.&nbsp; We will evaluate an extension of this timeline should the situation with COVID-19 warrant. If the suspension is extended, we will update our website <\/span>www.va.gov\/debtman<span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">&nbsp; to reflect the change and automatically extend suspensions for affected Veterans.&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.va.gov\/debtman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Website for VA Suspension of Debt<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">We are also suspending collection action or extending repayment terms on preexisting VA debts, as the Veteran prefers. Please continue to encourage Veterans and family members affected by COVID-19 (Coronavirus) who have a VBA benefit debt and need temporary financial relief to contact the DMC at 1-800-827-0648 to request assistance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to the current environment with COVID-19, the VA Debt Management Center (DMC) is suspending all actions on Veteran debts under the jurisdiction of the Treasury Department for sixty days.&nbsp; We will evaluate an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/veteransagent\/2020\/04\/10\/va-debt-management-center-covid-19\/\" aria-label=\"Read full article about VA Debt Management Center COVID-19\">Read full article<span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":767,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[1,114],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/veteransagent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/veteransagent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/veteransagent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/veteransagent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/veteransagent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/veteransagent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":770,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/veteransagent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions\/770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/veteransagent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/veteransagent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/veteransagent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/veteransagent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}