Federal Benefits

Provide assistance with documentation, completion, and submission of applications and claims to the Department of Veterans Affairs www.va.gov for:

• Veterans, it's never too late file a VA service-connected disability claim no matter how many years have past since your military service.  To file your initial VA disability claim, complete the Initial Claim Worksheet.  

  After you have completed the worksheet and gathered required documents and medical evidence that is not in your active duty medical record, call us at 593-2203 to schedule an appointment to submit your claim.      

  • 12/01/2006 VA Compensation Rates
     
• If you experience ringing, buzzing, hissing, chirping, or other noises in your ears and believe this to be caused by your military service, complete this Tinnitus Questionnaire.  This will be submitted with your VA disability claim.

• Non-service Connected VA Pension
• Dependency and Indemnity Compensation (DIC)
• Death Pension
• GI Bill / Dependent Education Benefits   www.gibill.va.gov/GI_Bill_Info/benefits.htm 
  • Nebraska Schools Approved for Veterans Education - Click on Directories

• Health Care Enrollment
  • Copays and Charges
  • Healthcare benefits www1.va.gov/health
• Home Loan Eligibility Certificate  www.homeloans.va.gov

           -- You can request your certificate by completing

               Request for Certificate of Eligibility for VA Home Loan and submit with

               a copy of your DD 214 or other proof of military service to:

VA Loan Eligibility Center
PO Box 20729
Winston-Salem, NC 27120

• Vocational Rehabilitation Application
  
www.vetsuccess.gov 
Five Tracks to Employment 
VocRehab & Employment Program
• Grave Headstones and Burial Benefits
• Life Insurance     Service-Disabled Veterans Insurance

Veterans' Group Life Insurance (VGLI)

To convert Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance (SGLI) to VGLI, veteran must submit SGLV 8714, Application for Veterans' Group Life Insurance to the Office of SGLI with the required premium within one year and 120 days from discharge.  If application is submitted within 120 days of discharge, evidence of good health is not required--after 120-days, evidence of good health must be submitted.

Converting Your Servicemembers' & VGLI Insurance Policy

• Retiree Benefits
• Summary of VA Benefits for National Guard and Reserve Personnel
• Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business

      

       If you've recently moved, complete the VA Change of Address form and bring

       it to our office for submission to the VA. 

• Combat-Related Special Compensation (CRSC) - Military retiree must have a VA rating of 10% or greater for a condition(s) resulting directly from armed conflict, hazardous duty, under conditions simulating war, or as an instrumentality of war.  CRSC is tax free and is paid at the same compensation rate as VA disability for the percentage granted.

           CRSC DoD Information Paper Jan 05             CRSC Program Guidance

Applications are submitted to the retiree's branch of service using DD Form 2860,  CRSC Application