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  • Download the VA Health and Benefits App

    Download the VA Health and Benefits App

    With the VA Health and Benefits App, you can refill prescriptions, message your care team or check your VA benefits using your smartphone.

  • Free app seeks to match Veterans with personalized list of benefits

    Free app seeks to match Veterans with personalized list of benefits

    MyVetBENEFITS is a free, easy-to-use third-party mobile app and website that matches Veterans to the benefits they’re most likely eligible for. 

  • Finish your benefits claims within one year to be eligible for the most backdated benefits

    Finish your benefits claims within one year to be eligible for the most backdated benefits

    If you weren’t ready to file a claim for VA benefits related to the PACT Act last fall, but did submit an intent to file (ITF) on or before Aug. 14, 2023, you still have time to file your claim. To protect the earliest potential effective date, you must file your claim within one year of the date that you filed your ITF. 

  • Protecting your benefits data from fraudsters

    Protecting your benefits data from fraudsters

    During Data Privacy Week (Jan. 27 - 31), VA is sharing guidance on how Veterans and their beneficiaries can protect their data, especially Personally Identifiable Information (PII).

  • Teenager’s rabbit auction benefits Veterans

    Teenager’s rabbit auction benefits Veterans

    Teenager Mason Michaelson wanted to auction rabbits. His grandfather, a World War Two Veteran, suggested he give back to Veterans.

  • 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.   

  • VA expands Outer Burial Receptacles benefit

    VA expands Outer Burial Receptacles benefit

    Beginning on Nov. 9, 2024, VA will accept applications for payment of a monetary allowance for privately purchased OBRs and for OBRs provided by a grant-funded cemetery, when the OBR is placed at the time of interment. This allowance may be paid for burials that occurred on or after the effective date of the new authority which is Jan. 5, 2023.  

  • Veterans benefit from early lung cancer detection

    Veterans benefit from early lung cancer detection

    Veterans at risk for lung cancer who receive care at Asheville VA can get screened and treated while cancer is still in its early stages.

  • The Women Veterans step-by-step guide to benefits and services

    The Women Veterans step-by-step guide to benefits and services

    Have you recently transitioned from military service, or are you looking to better understand the benefits and services available to you or a Veteran in your life? Here’s a step-by-step guide on how you can apply for your earned benefits and services.

  • National Identity Theft Prevention & Awareness Month: Protecting Veterans and their families

    National Identity Theft Prevention & Awareness Month: Protecting Veterans and their families

    For Veterans especially, the risk of identity theft is high, as criminals target reoccurring monthly benefits payments. Bad actors utilize stolen privacy information to exploit VA benefits, health care and pensions.

  • 2 million mobile app downloads giving more Veterans access

    2 million mobile app downloads giving more Veterans access

    The VA Health and Benefits mobile app is modernizing how Veterans access and manage their health care and benefits information.

  • How a Vietnam Veteran benefited from the PACT Act

    How a Vietnam Veteran benefited from the PACT Act

    82-year-old Army Veteran Wendell Bell was 30% service connected disabled and unaware of what he was eligible for under the PACT Act.

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Last updated March 28, 2025

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