Veterans Benefits — Complete Guide to VA Programs

Helps eligible Veterans, service members, and surviving spouses buy a home with favorable terms.

Allows Veterans to refinance an existing mortgage to get a lower interest rate or take cash out of their home equity.

Provides direct home loans to eligible Native American Veterans to buy, build, or improve homes on Federal Trust Land.

Provides financial support for education and housing to individuals with at least 90 days of aggregate service after September 10, 2001.

Provides up to 36 months of education benefits to eligible Veterans who contributed $1,200 to the program while on active duty.

A side-by-side comparison to help you pick the GI Bill program that best fits your education and housing goals.

Tax-free monetary benefit paid to Veterans with disabilities that are a result of a disease or injury incurred or aggravated during active military service.

An additional tax-free benefit paid to Veterans, their spouses, surviving spouses, and parents with certain severe disabilities or specific needs.

Provides disability compensation at the 100% rate to Veterans who are unable to maintain substantially gainful employment due to service-connected disabilities.

A walkthrough of how to claim Individual Unemployability when a service-connected condition keeps you from holding a job.

The specific conditions and combinations that qualify a Veteran for Special Monthly Compensation above the standard rating.

Helps Veterans with certain severe service-connected disabilities buy, build, or modify a home to accommodate their disability.

Helps Veterans with certain service-connected disabilities adapt or purchase a home to accommodate their disability.

Provides medically necessary home improvements and structural alterations to Veterans with service-connected conditions or certain non-service-connected conditi

Combines HUD housing vouchers with VA supportive services to help homeless Veterans and their families find and sustain permanent housing.

Tax-free monetary benefit paid to low-income, unremarried surviving spouses and dependent children of deceased Veterans with wartime service.

Provides thorough medical care, including preventive, primary, and specialty care, to eligible Veterans.

Allows eligible Veterans to receive health care services from community providers when VA cannot provide the care needed.

Provides complete mental health care, including treatment for PTSD, depression, anxiety, substance use disorders, and other conditions.

Provides comprehensive dental care to eligible Veterans, primarily those with service-connected dental conditions or specific eligibility criteria.

Helps Veterans with service-connected disabilities prepare for, find, and keep suitable employment or achieve independence in daily living.

An online portal that helps Veterans, service members, and their spouses find jobs and connect with employers committed to hiring Veterans.

Provides information, resources, and training to service members transitioning from military to civilian life.

Provides financial assistance to help cover the burial and funeral costs for eligible Veterans.

Provides burial in a VA national cemetery for eligible Veterans, their spouses, and dependent children.

Provides a free headstone, marker, or medallion for eligible Veterans buried in private cemeteries or state Veterans cemeteries.

An engraved paper certificate, signed by the current President, to honor the memory of honorably discharged deceased Veterans.