Congress is moving closer to passing a package of veterans’ benefits improvements before adjourning for the year, but final details remain unclear. The House of Representatives approved the Senate-passed Veterans’ Benefits Enhancement Act on Monday, as well as a compromise measure providing pensions to Filipino veterans who worked alongside U.S. troops in World War II. Both bills passed by voice vote but are not the final word. One big difference in the benefits bill is that the House version includes changes in the Servicemembers’ Civil Relief Act that would let service members cancel or suspend cell phone, cable and Internet provider contracts when they are deployed outside the U.S. for 90 days or longer.

You would think that common sense would dictate that a soldier would be able to cancel services when being deployed. Unfortunately many companies have become overzealous in their early termination practices. By putting this into law we are affording our soldiers the freedom from coming back from a deployment to find their credit ruined by some unscrupulous business. Do you think this is the right thing to do?

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