Disability compensation is a tax-free monetary benefit paid to veterans with disabilities that re the result of a disease or injury incurred or aggravated during active military servie. Compensation may also be paid for post-service disabilities that are considered related or secondary to desabilities occurring in servie and for disabilites presumed to be related to circumstances of miltary service even though they may arise after service.

Dependency and Indemnity Compensation (DIC): is a tax-free monetary benefit generally payable to a surviving spouse, child, or parent of service members who died while on active duty, active duty for training, or inactive duty training or survivors of veterans who died from their service-connected disabilities. DIC for parents is an income-based benefit.

Special Monthly Compensation (SMC): is an additional tax-free benefit that can be paid to veterans, their spouses, surviving spouses and parents. For veterans, Special Montly Compensation is a higher rate of compensation paid due to special circumstances such as the need of aid and attendance by another person or a specific disabilityk such as loss of use of one hand or leg.

Claims based on special circumstances: Veterans may be eligible for other types of disability compensation oce a disability has been determined to be service connected. Specail VA disability compensation programs include indidvidual unemplyability, automobile allowance, clothing allowance, prestabilization, hospitalization, convalescence, dental, and birth defects.

Appeals: NMDVS can represent our claimants to the Court or Board of Veteran Appeals.

Non-service connected

Veterans Pension: Tax-free monetary benefit payable to low-income wartime veterans.

Survivors Pension: Tax-free monetary benefit payable to a low-income, un-remarried surviving spouse and/or unmarried children of a deceased veteran with wartime service.

Veterans and survivor spouses who are eligible for Pension benefits and are housebound or require the aid and attendance of another person may be eligible rto receive additional monetary amounts.

Education programs:

• Post-9/11 GI Bill
• Montgomery GI Bill—Active Duty (MGIB-AD)
• Montgomery GI Bill—Selected Reserve (MGIB-SR)
• Reserve Eduational Assistance Program (REAP)
• Post-Vietnam Era Educational Assistance Program (VEAP)
• National Call the Service (NCS)
• Survivors’ and Dependents’ Educational Assistance (DEA) Chapter 35

Veteran Readiness and Emplyment (VR&E): servies to help with job training, education, employment,accommodations, resume development, and job seeking skills coaching. Others services may be provided to assist veterans and service members in starting their own businessses, or independent living services for those whoe are severely disabled and unable to work in traditional employment.

Purchase loans: Help you purchase a home at a competitive interest rate often witout requiring a down payment or private mortgage insurance. Cash Out Refinance loans allow you to take cash out of your hoe equity to take care of concerns like paying off debt, funding school, or making hime impovements.

Interest Rate Reduction Refinance Loan (IRRRL): Also called the Streamline Refinance Loan can help you obrain a lower interst rate by refinabcing your existing VA loan.

Native American Direct Loan (NADL) Program: Helps eligible Native American Veterans finance the purchase, construction, or improvement of homes on Federal Trust Land, or reuce the interest rae on a VA loan.

Adapted Housing Grants: Help veterans with a permanent and total service-connected disability purchase or build an adapted home or to modify an existing home to account for their disability.

Service-related Death:

VA will pay up to $2,000 toward burial expenses for deaths on oer after September 11, 2001, or up to $1,500 for deaths prior to September 11, 2001. If the veteran is buried in a VA national cmemtery, some or all of the cost of transporting the deceased may be reimbursed.

Non-service-related death:

VA will pay up to $796 toward burial and funeral expenses for deaths on or after October 1, 2019 (if hospitalized by VA at time of death), or $300 toward burial and funeral expenses (if not hospitalized by VA at time of death), and a $796 plot-internment allowance (if not buried in a national cemetery). For deaths on or after December 1, 2001, but before October 1, 2011, VA will pay up to $300 toward burial and funeral expenses and a $300 plot-internment allowance. For deaths on or after April 1, 1988 but before October 1, 2011, VA will pay $300 toward burial and fukneral expenses (for veterans hospitalized by VA at the time of death).

Servicemembers’ Group Life Insurance (SGLI)

• Get group life insurance while your’re serving

Family Servicemembers’ Group Life Insurance (FSGLI)

• Add coverage for your spouse and dependent children (children who rely on you for financial support)

Traumatic Injury Protection (TSGLI)

• Get short-term finanical support to help you recover from a severe injury

Veterans’ Group Life Insurance (VGLI)

• Get group term life insurance once you’ve ended your service

Veterans Affairs Life Insurance (VALife)

• Get guaranteed acceptance whole life insurance if you have a servie-connected disability

Veterans’ Mortgage Life Insurance (VMLI)

• If you have a service-connected disabilty, get mortgage protecion insurance for a home that’s been adapted to meet your needs

Eligibility for VA health care depends on several factors, such as whether:

• VA has rated you for a service-connected disability
• You recieved a Purple Heart or are a former Prisoner of War
• Your are a combat veteran who sparated within the last ten years
• You are eligible for Medicaid benefits
• Your familoy income is bleow the income threshold
• You served in Vietnam, Southwest Asia during the Gulf War, or Camp Lejeune during certia periods of time
• You were exposed to burn pits and other toxic substances during service in certain locations abd periosa of time

Note: Not all veterans are eligible for VA healthcare

• Disabled veteran property tax exemption
• Standard veteran property tex exemption
• Reduced registration fees
• Exemption from excise taxes on vehicle purchases
• Vietnam veteran scholarship
• Wartime veteran scholarship fund
• Children of deceased veterans
• High school diploma for WWII, Korean, and Vietnma veterans
• In-state tuition
• Military children school enrollment priority
• Veteran license plates
• Gold star family license plate
• Patriot license plate
• Hunting and fisning licenses