VA ClaimsBenefits of Filing a VA Claim

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What Benefits do you get from a VA Disability Claim?

 

Additional benefits that you may be eligible for are based on a favorable decision for a VA benefit and/or based on special circumstances. The VA calls these derivatives.

 

Service-Connected Benefits

 

• Non-Compensable 0 percent disability rating
   
  • 10 point Veteran preference in federal hiring
  • No cost health care and prescription drugs for service-connected disabilities (if income limits are met)
  • Travel allowance for scheduled appointments for care at a VA medical facility or VA authorized health care facility
  • Commissary and Exchange Privileges
  • Use of commissaries, exchanges, and morale, welfare and recreation (MWR) retail facilities, in-person and online.
     
• Compensable 0 percent disability rating*

*Note: In some instances, there are individuals who have separate and more than two zero percent service-connected disabilities who are paid at the minimum 10 percent. (38 CFR 3.324)
 

• • 10 point Veteran preference in federal hiring
  • No-cost healthcare and prescription drugs for service-connected disabilities (if income limits are met)
  • Travel allowance for scheduled appointments for care at a VA medical facility or VA authorized health care facility
  • Waiver of VA funding fee for VA home loan
  • Burial and plot allowance
  • Commissary and Exchange Privileges
  • Use of commissaries, exchanges, and morale, welfare and recreation (MWR) retail facilities, in-person and online.
     
• Service-connected disability rating at 30 - 40%
   
  • No cost health care and prescription medications for service-connected disabilities
  • Travel allowance for scheduled appointments for care at a VA medical facility or VA authorized health care facility
  • Waiver of VA funding fee for a home loan
  • 10 point Veteran preference in federal hiring
  • Vocational Rehabilitation & Employment
  • Burial and plot allowance
  • Commissary and Exchange Privileges
  • Use of commissaries, exchanges, and morale, welfare and recreation (MWR) retail facilities, in-person and online.
     
• Service-connected disability rating at 30 - 40%
   
  • No cost health care and prescription medications for service-connected disabilities
  • Travel allowance for scheduled appointments for care at a VA medical facility or VA authorized health care facility
  • Waiver of VA funding fee for a home loan  
  • 10 point Veteran preference in federal hiring
    • Direct hire authority
  • Vocational Rehabilitation & Employment  
  • Additional compensation for eligible dependents (may include aid and attendance for eligible spouse)
  • Burial and plot allowance
  • Commissary and Exchange Privileges
  • Use of commissaries, exchanges, and morale, welfare and recreation (MWR) retail facilities, in-person and online.
     
• Service-connected disability rating at 50%
   
  • No cost health care and prescription medications
  • Travel allowance for scheduled appointments for care at a VA medical facility or VA authorized health care facility
  • Waiver of VA funding fee for a home loan
  • 10 point Veteran preference in federal hiring
    • Direct hire authority
  • Vocational Rehabilitation & Employment  
  • Additional compensation for eligible dependents (may include aid and attendance for eligible spouses)
  • Concurrent receipt of military retired pay
  • Burial and plot allowance
  • Commissary and Exchange Privileges
  • Use of commissaries, exchanges, and morale, welfare and recreation (MWR) retail facilities, in-person and online.
     
• Service-connected disability rating at 60 - 90%
   
  • No cost health care and prescription medications
  • Travel allowance for scheduled appointments for care at a VA medical facility or VA authorized health care facility
  • Waiver of VA funding fee for a home loan
  • 10 point Veteran preference in federal hiring
    • Direct hire authority
  • Vocational Rehabilitation & Employment
  • Additional compensation for eligible dependents (may include aid and attendance for eligible spouses)
  • Concurrent receipt of military retired pay
  • Individual Unemployability (must be unemployable due to service-connected disabilities)
    • Dependents Educational Assistance (the unemployable condition must be considered permanent)
      • Special restorative training
    • CHAMPVA–Civilian Health and Medical Program (the unemployable condition must be considered permanent)
    • Dental care (if rated unemployable)
  • Burial and plot allowance
  • Commissary and Exchange Privileges
  • Use of commissaries, exchanges, and morale, welfare and recreation (MWR) retail facilities, in-person and online.
     
• Service-connected disability rating at 100%
   
  • No cost health care and prescription medications
  • Travel allowance for scheduled appointments for care at a VA medical facility or VA authorized health care facility
  • No cost dental care
  • Waiver of VA funding fee for a home loan
  • 10 point Veteran preference in federal hiring
    • Direct hire authority
  • Vocational Rehabilitation & Employment
  • Additional compensation for eligible dependents (may include aid and attendance for eligible spouses)
  • Concurrent receipt of military retired pay
  • Dependents Education Assistance (must be considered permanent.)
    • Special restorative training
  • CHAMPVA–Civilian Health and Medical Program (must be considered permanent)
  • Burial and plot allowance
  • Uniformed Services ID card
     
• Service-connected disability rating at 100% with an additional separate 60 percent service-connected disability rating
   
  • Statutory Housebound
  • Commissary and Exchange Privileges
  • Use of commissaries, exchanges, and morale, welfare and recreation (MWR) retail facilities, in-person and online.

 

Non-Service Connected Benefits

 

• Non-Service Connected Pension
   
  • 10 point veteran preference in Federal hiring
  • Health care enrollment (subject to income requirements)
  • Travel allowance for scheduled appointments for care at a VA medical facility or VA authorized health care facility
  • Burial and plot allowance
     
• Non Service Connected with Aid and Attendance or Housebound
   
  • 10 point veteran preference in Federal hiring
  • Health care enrollment (subject to income requirements)
  • Travel allowance for scheduled appointments for care at a VA medical facility or VA authorized health care facility
  • Free hearing aids
  • Free eyeglasses
  • Burial and plot allowance
  • Aid and attendance for spouse (if spouse meets criteria)

 

Circumstance Benefits

 

• You are a Medal of Honor Recipient.
   
  • Medal of Honor Pension
  • Use of commissaries, exchanges, and morale, welfare and recreation (MWR) retail facilities, in-person and online.
     
• You are a Former Prisoner of War.
   
  • No cost health care and prescription medications
  • No cost dental care
  • Use of commissaries, exchanges, and morale, welfare and recreation (MWR) retail facilities, in-person and online.
     
• You have a service-connected disability with anatomical losses or impairment due solely to service-connected disabilities.

*If you are a Veteran with service-connected disabilities rated at 50% or more, you may qualify for a Home Improvement Specially Adapted grant for a non-service-connected condition.
 

• • Special Monthly Compensation
  • Specially Adapted Housing/Special Home Adaptation Grant
    • Veterans Mortgage Life Insurance
  • Automotive Grant/Automobile Adaptive Equipment
  • Home Improvement Specially Adapted grant*
     
• The wheelchair permanently damaged your outer clothing, the prosthetic or orthopedic device you use for your service-connected condition, or your outer clothing was permanently damaged by the medication you take for your service-connected skin condition.
   
  • Clothing allowance
     
• You separated from military service with a total disability rating.
   
  • Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance two year extension
     
• You are a beneficiary of Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance, Traumatic Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance, Family Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance, or Veterans Group Life Insurance.
   
  • Free Beneficiary Financial Counseling
  • Free online will preparation
     
• You have a new service-connected disability.
   
  • Service-Disabled Veterans Insurance
     
• You are recovering from surgery, or you have a joint immobilized by a cast without surgery for a service-connected disability.
   
  • Temporary monetary compensation at the 100 percent rate
     
• You are hospitalized for more than 21 days for a service-connected disability.
   
  • Temporary monetary compensation at the 100 percent rate
     
• You recently separated from military service with an unstable disability and are likely not self-sufficient.
   
  • Temporary monetary compensation at the 100 percent rate
     
• You have an Individual Unemployability rating by VA.
   
  • Dependents Educational Assistance (the unemployable condition must be considered permanent)
    • Special Restorative Training
  • CHAMPVA–Civilian Health and Medical Program (the unemployable condition must be considered permanent)
  • Dental care (if rated unemployable)
     
• You have a new disability or an existing disability, which was aggravated during medical treatment, vocational rehabilitation, or while participating in compensated work therapy.  
   
  • Monthly monetary compensation for compensable disabilities
  • VA Health Care
     
• You are a male or female Veteran who served in the Republic of South Vietnam or the Korean DMZ. You have a biological child with Spina Bifida.
   
  • Monthly monetary compensation
  • VA Health Care
  • Vocational training for child
     
• You are a female Veteran who served in the Republic of South Vietnam. Your biological child has a covered congenital disability.
   
  • Monthly monetary compensation
  • VA Health Care
  • Vocational training for child
     
• You are separated from military service within 180 days or separated from military service for less than one year.
   
  • Educational and Career Counseling
     
• You have current eligibility for a VA education program.
   
  • Educational and Career Counseling
     
• You are a spouse or dependent child of a Servicemember who dies in the line of duty.
   
  • Dependency and Indemnity Compensation (subject to income limitations for dependent child)
  • Dependents Educational Assistance
    • Special Restorative Training
  • Marine Gunnery Sergeant John David Fry Scholarship (active duty death after September 10, 2001)
  • Home Loan Guaranty benefit (surviving spouse only)
  • CHAMPVA–Civilian Health and Medical Program
     
• You are the spouse or dependent child of a Veteran who died from a disability-related to military service.
   
  • Dependency and Indemnity Compensation (subject to income limitations for dependent child)
  • Dependents Educational Assistance
    • Special restorative training
  • Home Loan Guaranty benefit (surviving spouse only)
  • CHAMPVA–Civilian Health and Medical Program
     
• You are the parent of a Servicemember who dies in the line of duty or a Veteran who died from a disability related to military service.
   
  • Dependency and Indemnity Compensation (subject to income limitations)

 

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Source: VA.gov

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