Texas.gov/Veterans connects veterans and their families to the
assistance and benefits they have earned
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http://www.texas.gov
AUSTIN, Texas -- (Business Wire)
The Texas Veterans Commission and Texas.gov
are pleased to announce the launch of the redesigned Texas
Veterans Portal, an important website that connects veterans and
their families to the benefits and assistance they have earned as a
result of their military service.
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“As the home to nearly two million veterans, Texas must be at the
forefront of ensuring our military members receive the care and benefits
they have earned in service to our great nation,” said Governor Greg
Abbott. “The Texas Veterans Portal will help veterans more easily
connect with the services they need. I am proud of the Lone Star State’s
commitment to our servicemen and women and look forward to continuing
our efforts to improve the quality of life for all Texas veterans and
their families.”
Texas veterans played an important role in the redesign effort. In
collaboration with the University of North Texas Design Research Center,
veterans tested the site to review the usability of the previous portal
as well as the redesigned version. This exercise was invaluable to the
redesign effort and provided important insights into how veterans wanted
to interact with the portal.
Based on feedback from veterans and participating agencies of the
Veterans Portal Advisory Committee (VPAC), new features of the Texas
Veterans Portal include:
- Responsive design to better accommodate the more than 35
percent of users who access the site via a mobile device;
- Improved layout and organization of information to
clearly highlight the most important topics that veterans, their
families, and survivors need such as education, health and wellness,
employment, disabilities and claims, and more;
- Plain language content that welcomes veterans with a
simple, friendly tone and clearly informs them about different areas
of the site; and
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The addition of a search engine to help visitors quickly
locate exactly what they need.
“We are very proud of the new Texas Veterans Portal. For more than
ten months, we have worked together to create a site that we believe
will honor and serve our valued Texas armed service members, their
families, and their survivors,” said Thomas Palladino, Executive
Director of the Texas Veterans Commission.
The Texas
Veterans Portal is a collaborative effort of several state agencies
that provide services to veterans, including the Texas Veterans
Commission, Texas Workforce Commission, Texas Veterans Land Board, Texas
Department of Information Resources, 2-1-1 (Texas Health and Human
Services Commission) and TexVET (Texas A&M Health Science Center). The
portal is provided by Texas.gov,
the official website of the state of Texas.
About Texas.gov
Texas.gov is the official website of the state of Texas (www.texas.gov),
and is a collaborative public-private partnership managed by the Texas
Department of Information Resources (DIR). Texas.gov
helps state and local government entities web-enable their services, and
operates without tax funds through a partnership between the state of
Texas and Texas NICUSA, LLC (Texas NIC). Texas NIC builds, operates,
maintains, and markets Texas.gov, and is part of digital government firm
NIC’s family of companies. Since its launch in 2000, Texas.gov has
securely processed more than 288 million financial transactions and has
collected more than $33 billion on behalf of participating entities.
About Texas Veterans Commission
Since 1927, the mission of the Texas Veterans Commission has been to
advocate for and provide superior service that will significantly
improve the quality of life for all Texas veterans, their families and
survivors. More than 200 skilled counselors in 75 cities provide
one-on-one guidance to veterans and their families to ensure they
receive all of the benefits to which they are entitled. More information
about TVC is available at http://www.tvc.texas.gov.
About NIC
Founded in 1992, NIC (NASDAQ: EGOV) is the nation's leading provider of
innovative digital government solutions and secure payment processing,
which help make government more accessible to everyone through
technology. The family of NIC companies provides digital government
solutions for more than 4,500 federal, state, and local agencies in the
United States. Forbes has named NIC as one of the “100 Best Small
Companies in America” six times, and the company has been included four
times on the Barron’s 400 Index. Additional information is available at http://www.egov.com.
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Contacts:
Texas Department of Information Resources
Elliott Sprehe,
512-475-4704
elliott.sprehe@dir.texas.gov
Source: Texas.gov
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