Rehabilitation
Service: Supportive rehabilitation and counseling service.
Time Limits: You
generally have 12 years from the date we tell you in writing that
you have at least a 10% rating for a service-connected disability.
Home Loans
We offer a number
of home loans services to eligible veterans, some military personnel,
and certain spouses.
Guaranteed Loans:
We can guarantee part of a loan from a private lender to help you
buy a home, a manufactured home, a lot for a manufactured home, or
certain types of condominiums. We also guarantee loans for building,
repairing, and improving homes.
Refinancing
Loans: If you have VA mortgage, we can help you refinance your loan
at a lower interest rate. You may also refinance a non-VA loan.
Special Grants:
Certain disabled veterans and military personell can receive grants
to adapt or acquire housing suitable to their needs.
Time Limits: There
is no time limit for a VA home loan, except for eligible reservists.
Their eligibility expires September 30, 2009.
Burial
Benefits
We offer certain
benefits and services to honor our Nation’s deceased veterans
Headstones and
Markers: We can furnish a monument to mark the grave of an eligible
veteran.
Presidential Memorial
Certificate (PMC): We can provide a PMC for eligible recipients.
Burial flag: We
can provide an American flag to drape an eligible veteran’s
casket.
Reimbursement
of Burial Expenses: Generally we can pay a burial allowance of $2,000
for veterans who die of service-related causes. For certain other
veterans, we can pay $300 for burial and funeral expenses and $300
for a plot.
Burial in a VA
National Cemetery: Most veterans and some dependents can be buried
in a VA National Cemetery.
Time Limits: There
is no time limit for claiming reimbursement of burial expenses for
a service-related death. In other cases, claims must be filed within
2 years of a veteran’s burial.
Dependents’
& Survivors’ Benefits
Dependency and
Indemnity Compensation (DIC) is payable to certain survivors of:
Service members
who died on active duty.
Veterans who died
from service-related disabilities.
Certain veterans
who were being paid 100% VA disability compensation at the time of
death.
Death Pension
is payable to some surviving spouses and children of deceased wartime
veterans. The benefit is based on financial need.
VA Civilian Health
and Medical Program (CHAMPVA) shares the cost of medical services
for eligible dependents and survivors of certain veterans.
Time Limits: There
are no time limits to apply for the benefits described above.
Health
Care
