Free Veteran resource center
Know what to get, where to find it, and what happens next.
Official-source education and practical tools for building a complete record before paying for deeper analysis.
Find your county veterans service officer
Free, VA-accredited help near you: your state's official directory of county and state service officers, and when to see one.
Open resource →Prepaid review codes for counties, posts and employers
Buy one-time codes that give a Veteran a full review at no cost to them. Sponsors see a count, never a name or a record.
Open resource →For spouses and family
What a spouse can do on a claim, what the Veteran must sign, and VA benefits for spouses and survivors.
Open resource →Get your VA decision and complete C-file
Step-by-step official VA links for decision letters, the complete claims file, and VA medical records.
Open resource →Check PACT Act eligibility and prior denials
Connect toxic-exposure locations, current diagnoses, presumptive rules, and the correct path after an old denial.
Open resource →Screen possible secondary conditions
Understand causation, aggravation, evidence requirements, and why individualized record review matters.
Open resource →Check for special monthly compensation (SMC)
SMC-K, SMC-S and aid and attendance pay above the 100% rate, and VA often never decides them.
Open resource →Military sexual trauma (MST) claims
VA's special evidence rules for MST, the markers that can support a claim, and free MST-related care.
Open resource →Aid and Attendance and Housebound
VA pension, survivor and SMC-R aid and attendance: who qualifies, current limits, and VA Form 21-2680.
Open resource →Veteran Readiness and Employment (VR&E)
Who qualifies for Chapter 31, the FY2027 monthly allowance, and how VR&E works with TDIU.
Open resource →Request and audit your C-file
Where to request the complete file, what to ask for, and how to verify that every document was inventoried.
Open resource →Find and use official DBQs
Where VA publishes DBQs, what they document, and why a DBQ is not automatically a nexus opinion.
Open resource →Prepare for a C&P exam
What the exam is for, what to bring, how to describe flare-ups and functional loss, and what to do afterward.
Open resource →Estimate a possible back-pay difference
Compare current-rate scenarios while seeing the assumptions and limitations.
Open resource →Review 2026 disability rates
Current base rates plus direct links to VA dependent and SMC tables.
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