For VETERANS 
You may be eligible to receive a monthly benefit check from the Department of Veterans Affairs for Apprenticeship!
Apprenticeship entitles veterans to collect training benefits from the Veterans’ Administration.
If you are:
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A veteran
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Currently serving in the Guard or Reserves
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The spouse or child of a veteran with a 100% permanent and total service-connected disability, or
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A child or widow whose parent’s/spouse’s death was service related
YOU may be eligible for VA benefits during your Apprenticeship.
Please contact the Maine State Approving Agency for Veterans Education & Training by:
Phone
(207) 377-4661
E-mail
ssa-vets@maine.edu
Mail
State Approving Agency for
Veterans Education & Training Programs
P.O. Box 35
Winthrop , ME 04364
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Veteran Links
Maine State Approving Agency for Veterans
Important Contact Information for Veterans
Veterans' Employment and Training Service (VETS)
This site provides veterans, reservists, and National Guard members with information on the rights and benefits associated with securing employment.
USERRA Resource Guide
This site provides employers and reservists with a clearly written, simplified guide to the USERRA law. Under this law, a person who leaves a civilian job to perform military service (voluntarily or involuntarily) may be entitled to return to his or her civilian job after discharge or release from his or her military obligation if the service member meets basic eligibility criteria.
Key To Career Success for Transitioning Veterans
The Key to Career Success campaign connects veterans and service members with high quality career planning, training, and job search resources available at local One-Stop Career Centers.
America's Job Bank
This is an electronic labor exchange that provides job seekers and employers a marketplace in which to find each other over the Internet at no cost to them.
Business, Trade and Technical Schools (searchable vocational school database and career training resources)
Go4IT.gov ( U.S. Department of Commerce site for education, employment, and training programs in information technology)
Helmets to Hardharts
Directory of Education and Training Programs
