I am posting a email I received containing internet links I believe are helpful for veterans and their advocates. The topics are listed alphabetically.
Below are web-sites that provide information on Veterans benefits and how to file/ask for them. Accordingly, there are many sites that explain how to obtain books, military/medical records, information and how to appeal a denied claim with the VA. Please pass this information on to every Veteran you know. Nearly 100% of this information is free and available for all veterans, the only catch is: you have to ask for it because they won’t tell you about a specific benefit unless you ask for it. You need to know what questions to ask so the right doors open for you and then be ready to have an advocate who is willing to work with and for you, stay in the process, and press for your rights and your best interests
Appeals
Board of Veteran’s Appeals http://www.va.gov/vbs/bva/
CARES Commission http://www.va.gov/vbs/bva/
CARES Draft National Plan http://www1.va.gov/cares/page.cfm?pg 5
Center for Minority Veterans
Center for Veterans Enterprise http://www.vetbiz.gov/default2.htm
Center for Women Veterans
Clarification on the changes in VA healthcare for Gulf War Veterans
http://www.gulfwarvets.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/000016.html
Compensation for Disabilities Associated with the Gulf War Service
Compensation Rate Tables, 12-1-03
http://www.vba.va.gov/bln/21/Rates/comp01.htm
Department of Veterans Affairs Home Page http://www.va.gov/
Directory of Veterans Service Organizations
Disability Examination Worksheets Index, Comp
http://www.vba.va.gov/bln/21/Benefits/exams/index.htm
Due Process
Duty to Assist
Electronic Code of Federal Regulations http://www.gpoaccess.gov/ecfr/
Emergency, Non-emergency, and Fee Basis Care
http://www1.va.gov/opa/vadocs/fedben.pdf
Environmental Agents
Environmental Agents M10
02
Establishing Combat Veteran Eligibility
15
Evaluation Protocol for Gulf War and Iraqi Freedom Vets with Potential Exposure to Depleted Uranium (DU)
http://www1.va.gov/gulfwar/docs/DUHandbook1303122304.DOCand>;
58
See also, Depleted Uranium Fact Sheet
Evaluation Protocol for Non-Gulf War Veterans with Potential Exposure
to Depleted Uranium (DU)
Federal Benefits for Veterans and Dependents 2005
http://www1.va.gov/opa/vadocs/fedben.pdf%20OROR
http://www1.va.gov/opa/vadocs/fedben.pdf%20OR>;,
Forms and Records Request http://www.va.gov/vaforms/
Geriatrics and Extended Care http://www1.va.gov/geriatricsshg/
Guideline for Chronic Pain and Fatigue MUS-CPG
Guide to Gulf War Veteran’s Health http://www1.va.gov/gulfwar/docs/VHIgulfwar.pdf
Gulf War Subject Index http://www1.va.gov/GulfWar/page.cfm?pg~mplate
Gulf War Veteran’s Illnesses Q&As
http://www1.va.gov/gulfwar/docs/GWIllnessesQandAsIB1041.pdf
Hearings
Homeless Veterans
HSR&D Home http://www.hsrd.research.va.gov/
Index to Disability Examination Worksheets C&P exams
http://www.vba.va.gov/bln/21/benefits/exams/index.htm
Ionizing Radiation http://www1.va.gov/irad/
Iraqi Freedom/Enduring Freedom Veterans VBA http://www.vba.va.gov/EFIF/
M 10 for spouses and children http://www1..va.gov/vhapublications/ViewPublication.asp?pub_ID 07
M10 Part III Change 1
08
M21-1 Table of Contents
Mental Disorders, Schedule of Ratings
Mental Health Program Guidelines
94
MS (Multiple Sclerosis) Centers of Excellence http://www.va.gov/ms/about.asp
My Health e Vet http://www.myhealth.va.gov/
NASDVA.COM http://nasdva.com/>; http://nasdva.com/
National Association of State Directors http://www.nasdva.com/
Neurological Conditions and Convulsive Disorders, Schedule of Ratings
Parkinson’s Disease and Related Neurodegenerative Disorders
http://www1.va.gov/resdev/funding/solicitations/docs/parkinsons.pdfand, http://www1.va.gov/padrecc/
Peacetime Disability Compensation
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname¾_usc&docidl:+38USC1131
Pension for Non-Service-Connected Disability or Death
http://www.access.gpo.gov/uscode/title38/partii_chapter15_subchapteri.html
Persian Gulf Registry
03
This program is now referred to as Gulf War Registry Program (to include Operation Iraqi Freedom) as of March 7, 2005:
http://www1..va.gov/vhapublications/ViewPublication.asp?pub_ID 32
Persian Gulf Registry Referral Centers
06
Persian Gulf Veterans’ Illnesses Research 1999, Annual Report To Congress
http://www1.va.gov/resdev/1999_Gulf_War_Veterans%27_Illnesses_Appendices.doc
Persian Gulf Veterans’ Illnesses Research 2002, Annual Report To
Congress http://www1.va.gov/resdev/prt/gulf_war_2002/GulfWarRpt02.pdf
Phase I PGR
04
Phase II PGR
05
Policy Manual Index http://www.va.gov/publ/direc/eds/edsmps.htm
Project 112 (Including Project SHAD) http://www1.va.gov/shad/
Prosthetics Eligibility
37
Publications Manuals
Publications and Reports
http://www1.va.gov/resdev/prt/pubs_individual.cfm?webpagehtm
Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans’ Illnesses April 1, 2002
Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans’ Illnesses
http://www1.va.gov/rac-gwvi/docs/ReportandRecommendations_2004.pdf
Title 38 Index Parts 0-18
http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?sid
Title 38 Part 3 Adjudication Subpart A “Pension, Compensation, and Dependency and Indemnity Compensation
http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?cìfr&sid
Title 38 Pensions, Bonuses & Veterans Relief (Compensation for certain
disabilities due to undiagnosed illnesses found here)*http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?cìfr&sid
Title 38 Part 4–Schedule for Rating Disabilities Subpart B–Disability Ratings
http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?cìfr&sid
VA Best Practice Manual for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
http://www.avapl.org/pub/PTSD%20Manual%20final%206.pdf
VA Health Care Eligibility
http://www.va.gov/healtheligibility/home/hecmain.asp
VA Instituting Global Assessment of Function (GAF)
http://www.avapl.org/gaf/gaf.html
VA Life Insurance Handbook
http://www.insurance.va.gov/inForceGliSite/GLIhandbook/glibookletch3.htm#310
Lending Limits and Jumbo Loans http://valoans.com/va_facts_limits.cfm
VA MS Research http://www.va.gov/ms/about.asp
VA National Hepatitis C Program http://www.hepatitis.va.gov/
VA Office of Research and Development http://www1.va.gov/resdev/
VA Trainee Pocket Card on Gulf War
http://www.va.gov/OAA/pocketcard/gulfwar.asp
VA WMD EMSHG http://www1.va.gov/emshg/
VA WRIISC-DC http://www.va.gov/WRIISC-DC/
Vet Center Eligibility – Readjustment Counseling Service
http://www.va.gov/rcs/Eligibility.htm
Veterans Benefits Administration Main Web Page http://www.vba.va.gov/
Veterans Legal and Benefits Information http://valaw.org/
VHA Forms, Publications, Manuals
VHA Programs – Clinical Programs & Initiatives
http://www1.va.gov/health_benefits/page.cfm?pg
VHA Public Health Strategic Health Care Group Home Page http: //
www.publichealth.va.gov/http://www.publichealth.va.gov/>;
VHI Guide to Gulf War Veterans Health
http://www1.va.gov/vhi_ind_study/gulfwar/istudy/index.asp
Vocational Rehabilitation http://www.vba.va.gov/bln/vre/
VONAPP online http://vabenefits.vba.va.gov/vonapp/main.asp
WARMS – 38 CFR Book C
Wartime Disability Compensation
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname¾_us c&docidl:=38USC1110
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