(Missoula) On Friday, February 23rd Missoula opened their new veterans disability benefits examination clinic in Missoula.
This new clinic means Missoula-area veterans will no longer have to travel long distances to get examinations, said the offices of Senator Jon Tester.
Examinations are part of the process of determining a veterans benefits.
The VA says it still has more than 405 thousand pending requests for veteran benefits, saying that it has completed 863 thousand since last October.
