{"id":264777,"date":"2026-04-24T19:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T19:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/264777\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T19:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T19:30:07","slug":"hundreds-attend-first-of-its-kind-event-for-area-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/264777\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds attend first of its kind event for area veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ROBSTOWN, Texas \u2014 Hundreds of veterans attended the first Coastal Bend Joint County Veterans Claims Summit and Resource Fair at the Borchard Fairgrounds to receive assistance with their benefits.<\/p>\n<p>Veterans services officers from 12 area counties, including Nueces County, were on hand to help attendees with applying for compensation, appealing denials, non-service related pensions, and applying for survivor&#8217;s benefits.<\/p>\n<p>In the first few hours of the event, 50 veterans claims had been adjusted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s why we joined together, the county veterans services officers we joined forces so we can address the issues and get the veterans the help that they need in a timely manner,&#8221; J.J. De La Cerda said.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the success of Friday&#8217;s event, De La Cerda said organizers may consider hosting a similar event in the future. Veterans who need help can always contact the veterans services officer in their county.<\/p>\n<p>For the latest local news updates, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kristv.com\/news\/local-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">click here<\/a>, or download the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kristv.com\/about-us\/kris-6-apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KRIS 6 News App.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Catch all the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/KRIS6News\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KRIS 6 News stories and more on our YouTube page<\/a>. Subscribe today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ROBSTOWN, Texas \u2014 Hundreds of veterans attended the first Coastal Bend Joint County Veterans Claims Summit and Resource&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156,11909],"class_list":{"0":"post-264777","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-corpus-christi","8":"tag-corpus-christi","9":"tag-corpus-christi-headlines","10":"tag-corpus-christi-news","11":"tag-robstown-texas"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}