Macon County Veteran’s Services (Leigh Tabor, Director, Franklin)

The office's own page. "Macon County Veterans Service Office provides an unsurpassed personalized service to veterans and their dependents in obtaining VA benefits. All services are provided without charge by VA Accredited Representatives. Strictly controlled confidentiality is maintained at all times under penalty of law. Service Officers are required to be knowledgeable in federal, state and local laws pertaining to veterans and their dependents. This office is committed to provide innovative services and programs to meet the new and expanding requirements of an aging veterans' population, and those veterans returning from recent wars with new and sometimes unknown disabilities." The list. "Assistance in the following areas is provided on a daily basis: Compensation for service-connected disabilities; Pension for non-service connected disabilities; Compensation to dependents for service-connected deaths; Pension to dependents for non-service-connected deaths; Burial benefits; Federal grave markers; Life insurance; Education and vocational rehabilitation; Home loan certificates; VA hospital enrollment; Military records corrections; Obtaining military records, discharges, medals and awards; CHAMPVA; Tricare." The officeholders. Director Leigh Tabor, (828) 349-2151, [email protected]; Assistant Service Officer Christie Black, [email protected]; the office at 104 East Main Street, Franklin, NC 28734, hours 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. The State's accredited-offices listing carries the same office - "Office Manager: Tabor, Leigh" - and in the Board's packets the director appears as "Veterans Services Director Leigh Tabor-Holbrooks", presenting the county's Green Light resolutions. The State. Every county keeps a veterans service office under G.S. 165-12; see the North Carolina entry for the statutory scheme and the State's own benefits the office files.