{"id":87630,"date":"2026-08-18T10:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T10:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/?p=87630"},"modified":"2026-09-16T18:15:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T18:15:36","slug":"vba-benefits-visit-to-hilo-25-26-august-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/2026\/08\/18\/vba-benefits-visit-to-hilo-25-26-august-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"VBA Benefits Visit to Hilo, 25 & 26 August 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A VA Benefits Counselor\u00a0assigned to the Honolulu VA Regional Office (RO), will be at the Hilo Vet Center on Tuesday, 25 Aug and Wednesday, 26 Aug 2026. Appointment required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hilo Vet Center address: 70 Lanihuli Street, Ste 102, Hilo, HI 96720<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To schedule an appointment, email the Honolulu VA RO, Public Contact mailbox at: pctc.vbahon@va.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note: requesting an appointment, does not guarantee the appointment. Confirmation must be received, as there are limited slots each day. So, please encourage customers to provide a phone and\/or email address to confirm appointment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A VA Benefits Counselor\u00a0assigned to the Honolulu VA Regional Office (RO), will be at the Hilo Vet Center on Tuesday, 25 Aug and Wednesday, 26 Aug 2026. Appointment required. Hilo Vet Center address: 70 Lanihuli Street, Ste 102, Hilo, HI 96720 To schedule an appointment, email the Honolulu VA RO, Public Contact mailbox at: pctc.vbahon@va.gov. Note: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":87631,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"4073,3893,3461,85304,24868,19180","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12408],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-invitations"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87632,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87630\/revisions\/87632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}