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The Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 was legislation meant to help uphold the practice of granting veterans preference in the hiring process for federal jobs. The act helped provide more formal guidelines to preferences, and gave those qualifying veterans who felt their right to preference had been unduly violated a process for formal redress. This law applies to qualifying veterans of the National Guard.
Rank Eligibility
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To qualify for VEOA, you must not be a retired officer with the rank of major or higher. The one exception, as a National Guardsman, is if you will not begin receiving your pension until age 60.
Service
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You must have been honorably separated from the National Guard, and been on active duty after your period of training. Your period of training alone will not qualify you.
Disability
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If you have a service-connected disability, your time in training will qualify you for VEOA. Additionally, your disability must not be such that you cannot perform a job for which you applied with or without reasonable accommodation. If an agency does not hire you based on a belief that you would not be physically capable of performing the job under the aforementioned conditions, this agency is required to inform you in a timely manner and to allow you to respond.
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