PHOENIX - A company that said it can help veterans secure higher benefits has agreed to a penalty of nearly $2 million to settle a complaint that it was defrauding customers.
In the consent judgment, VetLink Solutions does not admit that it violated any state laws in the help it provided to veterans. Instead, company officials agreed not to misrepresent in the future the services it is entitled to provide.
Only thing is, there is nothing in state statutes that specifically prohibits people from offering to help veterans - even for money - even though they can get the same services for free from the Arizona Department of Veterans' Services.
