Complete Resource List for Filing Veterans Benefit Claims

Important Sites You Need to Visit to Get Services and 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
• Board of Veteran’s Appeals
• CARES Commission
• CARES Draft National Plan
• Center for Minority Veterans
• Center for Veterans Enterprise
• Center for Women Veterans
• Clarification on the changes in VA healthcare for Gulf War Veterans
• Classified Records – American Gulf War Veterans Association
• Compensation for Disabilities Associated with the Gulf War Service
• Compensation Rate Tables, 12-1-03
• Department of Veterans Affairs Home Page
• Directory of Veterans Service Organizations
• Disability Examination Worksheets Index, Comp
• Due Process
• Duty to Assist
• Electronic Code of Federal Regulations
• Emergency, Non-emergency, and Fee Basis Care
• Environmental Agents
• Environmental Agents M10
• Establishing Combat Veteran Eligibility
• Evaluation Protocol for Gulf War & Iraqi Freedom Veterans with Potential Exposure to Depleted Uranium (DU) and 1VA.gov.  See also Depleted Uranium Fact Sheet
• Fee Basis, Priority for Outpatient Medical Services and Inpatient Hospital Care
• Federal Benefits for Veterans and Dependants 2005 or Current Benefits
• Forms and Records Request
• General Compensation Provisions and Geriatrics and Extended Care
• Guideline for Chronic Pain and Fatigue MUS-CPG
• Guide to Gulf War Veteran’s Health
• Gulf War Subject Index
• Gulf War Veteran’s Illnesses Q&As
• Gulf War Registry Program (to include Operation Iraqi Freedom) as of March 7, 2005
• Hearings
• Homeless Veterans
• HSR&D Home
• Index to Disability Examination Worksheets C&P exams
• Ionizing Radiation
• Iraqi Freedom/Enduring Freedom Veterans VBA
• M 10 for spouses and children
• M10 Part III Change 1
• M21-1 Table of Contents
• Mental Disorders, Schedule of Ratings
• Mental Health Program Guidelines
• Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Centers
• MS (Multiple Sclerosis) Centers of Excellence
• My Health e Vet
• NASDVA.COM
• National Association of State Directors
• National Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
• Neurological Conditions and Convulsive Disorders, Schedule of Ratings and More on Nuerological ConditionsOMI (Office of Medical Inspector)
• Online VA Form 10-10EZ
• Parkinson’s Disease and Related Neurodegenerative Disorders and, PADRECC
• Peacetime Disability Compensation
• Pension for Non-Service-Connected Disability or Death 
• Persian Gulf Registry
• Persian Gulf Registry Referral Centers
• Persian Gulf Veterans’ Illnesses Research 1999, Annual Report To Congress
• Phase I PGR
• Phase II PGR
• Policy Manual Index
• Prosthetics Eligibility
• Public Health and Environmental Hazards Home Page
• Public Health/SARS
• Publications Manuals
• Publications and Reports
• Records Center and Vault Homepage
• Records Center and Vault Site Map
• Request for and Consent to Release of Information from Claimant Records
• Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans Illnesses April 11, 2002
• Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans Illnesses
• Research and Development
• Survivor’s and Dependents’ Educational Assistance
• Title 38 Index Parts 0-17
• Part 18
• Title 38 Part 3 Adjudication Subpart A “Pension, Compensation and Dependency and Indemnity Compensation
• Title 38 Pensions, Bonuses & Veterans Relief (also § 3.317 Compensation for certain disabilities due to undiagnosed illnesses found here)
• Title 38 PART 4–SCHEDULE FOR RATING DISABILITIES Subpart B–DISABILITY RATINGS
• Title 38§ 4.16 Total disability ratings for compensation based on unemployability of the individual. PART A “SCHEDULE FOR RATING DISABILITIES Subpart à “General Policy in Rating
• U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims
• VA Best Practice Manual for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
• VA Fact Sheet
• VA Health Care Eligibility
• VA INSTITUTING GLOBAL ASSESSMENT OF FUNCTION (GAF)
• VA Life Insurance Handbook ¬” Chapter 3
• VA Loan Lending Limits and Jumbo Loans
• VA MS Research
• VA National Hepatitis C Program
• VA Office of Research and Development
• VA Trainee Pocket Card on Gulf War
• VA WMD EMSHG
• VA WRIISC-DC
• VAOIG Hotline Telephone Number and Address
• Vet Center Eligibility – Readjustment Counseling Service
• Veterans Benefits Administration Main Web Page
• Veterans Legal and Benefits Information
• VHA Forms, Publications, Manuals
• VHA Programs – Clinical Programs & Initiatives
• VHA Public Health Strategic Health Care Group
• VHI Guide to Gulf War Veterans ¬(tm) Health
• Vocational Rehabilitation
• Vocational Rehabilitation Subsistence
• VONAPP online
• WARMS – 38 CFR Book C
• Wartime Disability Compensation
• War-Related Illness and Injury Study Center – New Jersey
• Welcome to the GI Bill Web Site
• What VA Social Workers Do
• WRIISC Patient Eligibility