from the Cleburne Times paper

Those veterans were initially blocked from enrollment in the VA system in January 2003 if their income exceeded $30,000 a year.

U.S. Rep. Chet Edwards, D-Waco, authored a $375 million provision last year to expand enrollment of Priority 8 veterans by 10 percent under the fiscal year 2009 Veterans Affairs Appropriations bill, which became law Sept. 29.