Bill would make TAP mandatory for all troops p1 - Military Transition - Military Times EDGE

No more skipping TAP if a bill introduced May 11 by Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., and other senators is signed into law.

The Hiring Heroes Act of 2011 includes several measures meant to lower the unemployment rate of young veterans, including requirements that service members attend the Transition Assistance Program before separating and the government contact them in the first year after they leave the service to check on their job status.

It also would direct the departments of Defense, Labor and Veterans Affairs to eliminate barriers between military training and civilian licensure or credentialing for several military occupational specialties.