The Self-help Guide on VA Claims

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From the Self-help Guide on VA Claims:

This Self-Help Guide (Guide) is intended to help you, with the help of your advocate, present a claim for disability benefits to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The VA claims process is sometimes complicated and often confusing. No single publication can cover every situation or be 100 percent accurate in every instance. To give yourself the best chance of winning VA benefits, read this Guide to get an understanding of the VA benefits system, and get someone to help you, someone who will act in your behalf — an advocate or representative. You can get free representation through a network of advocates who work for national service organizations or for state or county offices of veterans’ affairs. You don’t have to be a member of a service organization to get free help from it.

Many states also provide various benefits to veterans. This Guide does not cover state veterans’ benefits. To obtain information about state veterans’ benefits, contact your state or county department of veterans’ affairs.

The VA provides many types of benefits (for example, education, health care, home loans, and insurance). This Guide focuses on the two kinds of disability benefits paid by the VA: service-connected compensation and non-service-connected pension. Veterans who are granted either disability compensation or pension get a check each month from the VA. Veterans who qualify for both disability compensation and pension are awarded whichever benefit will pay them more. (The law does not permit a veteran to receive both disability and pension benefits at the same time, so the VA will pay whichever benefit is higher in that particular case.)

This Guide does not cover everything about the VA’s compensation and pension programs. It is a basic overview designed to help you help your advocate in your attempt to obtain VA compensation and pension benefits.

One of the first things you should check is that your discharge from service is a discharge that qualifies you for VA disability benefits. Almost always, discharges that are honorable or “under honorable conditions” (a general discharge) allow you to receive most VA disability benefits. Other types of discharges or upgraded discharges can create complicated situations with respect to VA benefits. This Guide assumes that you do have an honorable or general discharge and so are probably eligible, on that score at least, to receive VA disability benefits.

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