Listing Of Veteran Benefits

  
Below are web-sites that provide information on Veterans benefits and how to file/ask for them. Accordingly, there are many sites that explain how to obtain books, military/medical records, information and how to appeal a denied claim with the VA.  Please pass this information on to every Veteran you know.  Nearly 100% of this information is free and available for all veterans, the only catch is: you have to ask for it, because they won't tell you about a specific benefit unless you ask for it.  You need to know what questions to ask so the right doors open for you -- and then be ready to have an advocate who is willing to work with and for you, stay in the process, and press for your rights and your best interests.

• Appeals http://www.warms.vba.va.gov/admin21/m21_1/mr/part1/ch05.doc
• Board of Veteran's Appeals http://www.va.gov/vbs/bva/ Center for Minority Veterans http://www1.va.gov/centerforminorityveterans/
• Center for Women Veterans http://www1.va.gov/womenvet/
• Compensation for Disabilities Associated with the Gulf War Service  http://www.warms.vba.va.gov/admin21/m21_1/part6%20/ch07.doc
• Compensation Rate Tables, 12-1-03 http://www.vba.va.gov/bln/21/Rates/comp01.htm
• Department of Veterans Affairs Home Page http://www.va.gov/  
• Directory of Veterans Service Organizations http://www1.va.gov/vso/index.cfm?template=view
• Disability Examination Worksheets Index, Comp  http://www.vba.va.gov/bln/21/Benefits/exams/index.htm
• Due Process http://www.warms.vba.va.gov/admin21/m21_1/mr/part1/ch02.doc
• Duty to Assist http://www.warms.vba.va.gov/admin21/m21_1/mr/part1/ch01.doc
• Electronic Code of Federal Regulations http://www.gpoaccess.gov/ecfr/
• Environmental Agents http://www1.va.gov/environagents/
• EVALUATION PROTOCOL FOR GULF WAR AND IRAQI FREEDOM VETERANS WITH POTENTIAL EXPOSURE TO DEPLETED URANIUM (DU) http://www1.va.gov/gulfwar/docs/DUHandbook1303122304.DOC  and http://www1.va.gov/vhapublications/ViewPublication.asp?pub_ID=1158
• See also, Depleted Uranium Fact Sheet http://www1.va.gov/gulfwar/docs/DepletedUraniumFAQSheet.doc  
• EVALUATION PROTOCOL FOR NON-GULF WAR VETERANS WITH POTENTIAL EXPOSURE TO DEPLETED URANIUM (DU) http://www1.va.gov/gulfwar/docs/DUHANDBOOKNONGW130340304.DOC  
• Forms and Records Request http://www.va.gov/vaforms/   
• Geriatrics and Extended Care http://www1.va.gov/geriatricsshg/  
• Guideline for Chronic Pain and Fatigue MUS-CPG http://www.oqp.med.va.gov/cpg/cpgn/mus/mus_base.htm
• Guide to Gulf War Veteran's Health http://www1.va.gov/gulfwar/docs/VHIgulfwar.pdf
• Gulf War Veteran's Illnesses Q&As http://www1.va.gov/gulfwar/docs/GWIllnessesQandAsIB1041.pdf  
• Hearings http://www.warms.vba.va.gov/admin21/m21_1/mr/part1/ch04.doc
• Homeless Veterans http://www1.va.gov/homeless/
• HSR&D Home http://www.hsrd.research.va.gov/
• Index to Disability Examination Worksheets C&P exams http://www.vba.va.gov/bln/21/benefits/exams/index.htm
• Iraqi Freedom/Enduring Freedom Veterans VBA http://www.vba.va.gov/EFIF/    
• M21-1 Table of Contents http://www.warms.vba.va.gov/M21_1.html  
• Mental Disorders, Schedule of Ratings http://www.warms.vba.va.gov/regs/38CFR/BOOKC/PART4/S4_130.DOC  
• My Health e Vet http://www.myhealth.va.gov/
• National Association of State Directors http://www.nasdva.com/
• Neurological Conditions and Convulsive Disorders, Schedule of Ratings http://www.warms.vba.va.gov/regs/38cfr/bookc/part4/s4%5F124a.doc
• Peacetime Disability Compensation http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=browse_usc&docid=Cite:+38USC1131       
• Policy Manual Index http://www.va.gov/publ/direc/eds/edsmps.htm  
• Prosthetics Eligibility http://www1.va.gov/vhapublications/ViewPublication.asp?pub_ID=337
• Publications Manuals http://www1.va.gov/vhapublications/publications.cfm?Pub=4
• Records Center and Vault Homepage http://www.aac.va.gov/vault/default.html
• Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans Illnesses April 11, 2002 http://www1.va.gov/rac-gwvi/docs/Minutes_April112002.doc  
• Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans Illnesses http://www1.va.gov/rac-gwvi/docs/ReportandRecommendations_2004.pdf
• Title 38 Index Parts 0-17 http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?sid=1b0c269b510d3157fbf8f8801bc9b3dc&c=ecfr&tpl=/ecfrbrowse/Title38/38cfrv1_02.tpl
• Part 18 http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?sid=1b0c269b510d3157fbf8f8801bc9b3dc&c=ecfr&tpl=/ecfrbrowse/Title38/38cfrv2_02.tpl
• Title 38 Part 3 Adjudication Subpart "Pension, Compensation, and Dependency and Indemnity Compensation http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ecfr&sid=1b0c269b510d3157fbf8f8801bc9b3dc&tpl=/ecfrbrowse/Title38/38cfr3_main_02.tpl
• Title 38 Pensions, Bonuses & Veterans Relief (also § 3.317 Compensation for certain disabilities due to undiagnosed illnesses found here) http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ecfr&sid=1b0c269b510d3157fbf8f8801bc9b3dc&tpl=/ecfrbrowse/Title38/38cfr3_main_02.tpl
• Title 38 PART 4--SCHEDULE FOR RATING DISABILITIES Subpart B--DISABILITY RATINGS http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ecfr&sid=ab7641afd195c84a49a2067dbbcf95c0&rgn=div6&view=text&node=38
• Title 38 4.16 Total disability ratings for compensation based on unemployability of the individual.
• PART 4 "SCHEDULE FOR RATING DISABILITIES Subpart  "General Policy in Rating http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ecfr&sid=1b0c269b510d3157fbf8f8801bc9b3dc&rgn=div8&view=text&node=38
• VA Life Insurance Handbook Chapter 3 http://www.insurance.va.gov/inForceGliSite/GLIhandbook/glibookletch3.htm#310
• VA Loan Lending Limits and Jumbo Loans http://valoans.com/va_facts_limits.cfm  
• VA National Hepatitis C Program http://www.hepatitis.va.gov/  
• VA Trainee Pocket Card on Gulf War http://www.va.gov/OAA/pocketcard/gulfwar.asp    
• Vet Center Eligibility - Readjustment Counseling Service http://www.va.gov/rcs/Eligibility.htm
  
• Veterans Benefits Administration Main Web Page http://www.vba.va.gov/  
• Veterans Legal and Benefits Information http://valaw.org/  
• VHA Forms, Publications, Manuals http://www1.va.gov/vhapublications/  
• VHA Public Health Strategic Health Care Group Home Page http: // www.publichealth.va.gov/  
• Vocational Rehabilitation http://www.vba.va.gov/bln/vre/  
• Vocational Rehabilitation Subsistence http://www.vba.va.gov/bln/vre/InterSubsistencefy04.doc  
• VONAPP online http://vabenefits.vba.va.gov/vonapp/main.asp  
• WARMS - 38 CFR Book C http://www.warms.vba.va.gov/bookc.html  
• Wartime Di sability Compensation http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=browse_usc&docid=Cite:+38USC1110         
• War-Related Illness and Injury Study Center - New Jersey http://www.wri.med.va.gov/  
• Welcome to the GI Bill Web Site http://www.gibill.va.gov/