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  • Secure your PACT Act benefits with VBBP

    Secure your PACT Act benefits with VBBP

    The Veterans Benefits Banking Program (VBBP) is a VA initiative that assists Veterans and their beneficiaries by providing secure access to banking options and financial services to protect them from fraudulent schemes and pension poaching.

  • VBBP is one of the many ways VBA honors those who have served this Veterans Day

    VBBP is one of the many ways VBA honors those who have served this Veterans Day

    Since VBBP's inception, more than 200,000 Veterans and beneficiaries have created bank accounts, converted to direct deposit, and now receive their benefits payments through electronic funds transfers (EFT).

  • Protect your VA benefits and access free credit or financial counseling with VBBP 2.0

    Protect your VA benefits and access free credit or financial counseling with VBBP 2.0

    VA expanded the Veterans Benefits Banking Program to provide more services to Veterans. See what the expansion, called VBBP 2.0, offers.

  • Preparing for natural disasters

    Preparing for natural disasters

    While it may feel overwhelming, VA wants Veterans to be prepared to navigate the challenges resulting from extreme weather. Here's how.

  • More than 530,000 previously unbanked Veterans are now enrolled in direct deposit

    More than 530,000 previously unbanked Veterans are now enrolled in direct deposit

    VA established the Veterans Benefits Banking Program (VBBP), which has helped more than 530,000 Veterans and beneficiaries enroll in direct deposit for their VA benefit payments since 2019.   

  • Veterans benefitting from VA’s banking program

    Veterans benefitting from VA’s banking program

    VA’s Veterans Benefits Banking Program (VBBP) has helped thousands of Veterans and their families make the conversion to direct deposit, which is quick, easy, and secure.

  • Get help in raising your credit score at a free workshop

    Get help in raising your credit score at a free workshop

    The “Increase Your Credit Score” workshop will be a live event with credit experts whose aim is to help you bolster your credit score and financial stability.

  • Veterans Benefits Banking Program integrates with VetCents to improve Veterans’ financial health

    Veterans Benefits Banking Program integrates with VetCents to improve Veterans’ financial health

    The Veterans Benefits Banking Program provides Veterans with a safe, reliable, and inexpensive way to receive and manage their VA monetary benefits. Now the program has added a new component with the integration of a newly redesigned, VetCents, that offers Veterans ways to gain the knowledge, skills, and confidence they need to take control of their financial life.

  • The Veterans Benefit Banking Program has converted 250,000 Veterans and their beneficiaries to direct deposit

    The Veterans Benefit Banking Program has converted 250,000 Veterans and their beneficiaries to direct deposit

    The Veterans Benefits Banking Program (VBBP) eliminates the need for benefits recipients to wait for a paper check.

  • Pursue financial stability and security by taking the Veteran Saves pledge

    Pursue financial stability and security by taking the Veteran Saves pledge

    A healthy financial future isn’t only about how much money you make, but how you manage it. Veteran Saves, which is part of the Consumer Federation of America’s America Saves program, wants to help increase financial stability, savings and economic resilience among Veterans.

  • Veterans continue to receive world-class financial benefits and services via Veterans Benefits Banking Program

    Veterans continue to receive world-class financial benefits and services via Veterans Benefits Banking Program

    VA partnered with the Association of Military Banks of America (AMBA) to create VBBP—which helps Veterans and beneficiaries open low or no cost bank and credit union accounts. VBBP also provides free financial education, financial counseling, and credit counseling.

  • 100,000 Veterans have switched to direct deposit to protect their benefits

    100,000 Veterans have switched to direct deposit to protect their benefits

    VA established the Veterans Benefits Banking Program (VBBP) in 2019. Since then, more than 100,000 Veterans have switched to direct deposit.

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Last updated April 6, 2023

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