To the brave men and women who’ve served in our military, we owe a debt of gratitude that can never truly be repaid. When these veterans return home with disabilities as a result of their service, it’s crucial they receive the support they deserve. For our heroes, a range of benefits have been designed to aid their transition to civilian life. Let’s delve into these benefits tailored for disabled veterans.
1. Compensation for Disabilities
Disabled veterans are entitled to compensation for injuries or diseases that occurred while on active duty, or which were made worse by their service. This monetary benefit varies based on the degree of disability and can significantly assist veterans in their daily lives.
2. Health Care Benefits
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) provides a variety of health care services to veterans. This can range from hospital care, to prescription medications, to prosthetic devices. Specialized health care programs exist specifically for those with service-related disabilities.
3. Home Loan Assistance
A home is more than just a roof over our heads. It represents security and a place to make memories. Disabled veterans can benefit from the VA home loan program, which often offers better terms than traditional loans. Plus, veterans with specific disabilities might even be eligible for grants to modify or buy an adapted home.
4. Education and Training
Just because a veteran has finished their service doesn’t mean they should stop learning. The VA offers training and education benefits to help veterans transition to new careers or further their education. This can include college degree programs, vocational training, or on-the-job training.
5. Insurance
Life insurance can be tricky for disabled veterans. Thankfully, the VA offers a life insurance program for veterans who might not be able to get private insurance. This ensures that veterans and their families have peace of mind for the future.
6. Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment
For veterans with service-related disabilities that impact their ability to work, the VA provides services to improve their ability to live and work as independently as possible. This can include job training, employment accommodations, and resume development.
7. Mental Health Services
Mental health is as crucial as physical health. Recognizing this, the VA offers a range of mental health services, from counseling to specialized PTSD programs.
8. Burial and Memorial Benefits
It’s a sobering thought, but planning for the end of life is essential. Disabled veterans are eligible for honors at national cemeteries. This includes a gravesite, headstone, and the option of a burial flag.
Using Your Benefits Wisely
While these benefits provide valuable support, it’s essential to know how to access and utilize them best. Always:
- Stay Informed: Regularly check with the VA and other organizations to keep updated about any changes or additional benefits.
- Ask Questions: Not sure about a particular benefit? Reach out to local VA offices or veterans’ organizations. They’re there to help.
- Connect with Other Veterans: Sometimes, the best advice comes from those who’ve walked the same path. Veteran support groups can be a valuable resource.
Conclusion
Our disabled veterans have made enormous sacrifices in service to our country. These benefits, though they can never truly compensate for their sacrifices, aim to ease their journey post-service. By understanding and accessing these benefits, our heroes can transition into civilian life with the support they’ve rightly earned.
Always remember: at Military.net, we’re here to keep you informed and honor your service.
I feel very BLESSED i am 100% and the only problem is that when your to get a call from your Dr. it takes forever to get them on the phone. also when you call the va it takes forever to get anyone!
Try sending a message via My Healthy Vet!
The VA is not perfect, but they are trying. I give them a thumbs up.
I agree. I have been seen at the VA for the last 15 years. My PA is the best health provider I have ever had. She is knowledgeable, caring and compassionate.
I AM 100% SC, HOWEVER I TRY TO CLAIM FOR PTSD AND LUNG CANCER (because Agent Orange) and they denied it because 100% is the maximum! Plus the V.A claims that I owe them $280,000 for my radiation treatment.
Wheelchair-bound suffering from type 2 diabetes since 2/5/2001, had cardiac arrest in April 2023.
This will blow somebody’s mind! After serving 10 yrs in USAF, I was part of a massive military reduction in force when bases were being closed & Non-Commissioned Officers were given Separation Pay to get out early. I was given this & then yrs. later became a service connected disabled vet. I was denied my VA Disability Checks until all of my separation pay was paid back! It took yrs. before I finally received my 1st VA disability check!!! This basically means I was slapped in the face & got Zero for my 10 yrs. of service with the USAF!!! Years later, I’m grateful now for my VA disability checks, but I always thought that this was not how a disabled veteran should have been treated!!! I personally think that all of my separation pay should be paid back to me! I was shocked that the government withheld my VA Disability money that I desperately needed at the time. This was just not right!
Now another slap in all of our faces is giving everything free to the migrants crossing the border, pre-paid credit cards, free housing, free food, community care network medical!!!
What about all of us Veteran’s who are more deserving of this than someone who is not even an American US Citizen???? If you decide to vote for Biden again you gotta be a crazy person!
Right on!! I experinced the same thing! And was equally shocked….What is an U.S. citizenship and service to your country worth?….the right to vote (sometimes) and to pay taxes! Illegals crossinng the border get more support and privileges than tax paying American servicemen, women, and citizens!
I did my 20 years and after I got out I filed for disability payments and was awarded 60% disabled. Then they came back and took back 20% leaving me at 40%. Back then you needed to be 30% disabled to receive Voc Rehab.. Sp I took advantage of this program where they paid for my books and supplies and the courses That I needed to get my degree. Now I understand that they dropped it to 10% disabled to be eligible for Vic Rehab. I went to school 5 days a week during evening bc classes. I got my degree and they also paid for my state license needed. I took up Mortuary Sciences and became a full time Funeral Director/ Embalmer. I spent my last 14 years in the Air Force being stationed at different Commands in the area of the Washington DC area. So for 13 years, I worked part time at a funeral Home and when I retired on December 31, 1992 the next day January 1st 1993 I started full time with them. After 43 years as a Mortician, I retired last May. So anyone reading my post you can apply for also Rehab and get an education plus as good job after the service. During my 20 year career in the USAF, I saw too many E-7’s and above who had no idea what so ever as to what they were going to do after you retire.
Being a Vietnam vet with DAV I can agree with several of your points. However, please give real thought to the alternative to President Biden. He didn’t even want to include injured vets in his parade, He didn’t do any of the things he promised for vets while he was in office, I noticed that while he was in office many VA facilities didn’t even have his picture up next to the Secretary of Defense. Then for him not enlisting, like so many guys with minor health challenges during the Vietnam war, he is not an vets real alternate. “Think BIG Picture”.
I TOTALLY Agree!!! How is it that we tax payers have to pay out for someone that are not citizens of this country or even paid a dime of tax, right! Yet Veterans who served with their blood, sweat, tears, even their life are not compensated correctly and in a timely manner. If they do, they still have to go through a bunch of red tape before getting what they deserved.
I know exactly how you feel the same thing happened to me. I was in the USAF for 11 years and 3 months and they closed my base took separation pay cause I knew that I couldn’t make the mile and 1/2 anymore after injuring my left leg 3 days before I was to deploy for Desert Storm. It took me 31 years to get compensation on my leg for no ligaments in it and they only gave me 10% then 20% on each knee for arthritis and 10% for tinnitus but they only figure it up as 50% and they made me pay back the separation pay before I got any of it. I have loss of hearing but they don’t believe it’s due to being in the USAF when I was a heavy equipment operator and I just found out that original m-1 earplugs were defective and there was a law suit about those earplugs also and I never received anything from that.
Not a crazy person but will acknowledge my right and freedom to vote for whoever I choose..
If you are 100 percent you are entitled to free dental all you have to do is go to the VA dental office
Where is this office?
Jose
Usually the dental office is inside the VA facility
Veterans should not have to pay anything for burial. This should be 100% FREE. Yes if you get buried in a national cemetery it’s free but the Veterans still has to pay for his casket, funeral expenses, and much more before they get to the national cemetery. I strongly believe that this should be provided to all veterans. And if veterans choose to be buried in they own cemetery plot this should be included. Every soldier has earned this and it should be provided. Our government can give out trillion of dollars to foreign country but can’t provide a decent burial to our heroes. Right know I believe veterans are entitled to 300 dollars for expenses and to get this you have to fill out tons of paperwork. This is a joke and a slap in the face for all veterans. It’s time to take care of all veterans now and in our final days.
Its true keep giving illigal imigrants everything. For nothing food shelter healthcare and homeless veterans are sleeping in the streety
That’s our Federal Government. Nothing for Veterans but it’s ok for the jack-offs in Washington to donate our tax and benefits to FOREIGN NATIONALS AND TO HELL WITH OUR SACRIFICES, as VETERANS WHO PUT EVERYTHING ON THE LINE WHEN IT MATTERED MOST. This country needs to do away with political corrupted politicians and parties and let the people decide what is right and best for this country.
Grants to modify my home
I would like to see Legal and Personal Finance assistance for veterans. They have it for Caregiver’s…why not the vets?
I agree again. It seems like veterans are less concerned about their health by the government
I thank the Lord above for allowing me, and my family the opportunity to serve a great nation, in time when needed I know that times , may not the way we want or need it but I thank you guys for supporting us
I agree. The last 4 years have been the most trying time of my life and very challenging with home loan and jobs. I appreciate the support I have been given its a blessing and I’ve volunteered to give back in many ways! Pay it forward if you can. I recently volunteered at a mobile food pantry and I was able to utilize a newly developed skill while in the VRCP the Veterans Recovry Center Program. I have 20 years of IT experience and have been looking for employment for over a year and still working with my VR&E and vocational recruiter to find employment with my schedule A letter. I recently gained knowledge that hiring managers are reluctant on hiring schedule a disabled personel due to not showing for work and maybe causing some other problems theybare already aware of. I hope a few bad apples haven’t ruined the schedule a hiring pool for disabled veterans! Most of us are looking for stability and have a strong work ethics. I’ve latched on to a new therapy of flying drones certifications in drone piloting photography, surveying land videos of mobile food panties and other volunteer veteran’s. I have provided me with some comfort and I developed a real love for this. I SAID ALL THAT TO SAY THIS! STAY IN THE FIGHT! LOOK FOR EVERY BRIGHT LIGHT YOU CAN AND FIND YOUR WAY OUT THE DARK! THIS CANT LAST FOREVER. IM STILL LOOKING FOR FEDERAL WORK. IF ANYONE CAN HELP PLEASE REACHOUT! BRAVO ZULU! SHIPMATES!
I am getting married in a few months and how much am I entitled to I have a 100 percent service connection and how do I apply for my money?
This is VERY important. Look very closely at what is called SMC. The payouts are enormous when compared to basic disability ratings. Special Monthly Compensation or SMC is far superior to a simple percent rating. It is based on specific injuries and how they limit your abilities and how they affect you both physically and psychologically. The totals can be many times more than a simple 100% rating. Don’t fall for anyone telling you that 100 % is the limit to compensation. It’s really only a starting point for those with loss of limbs or loss of use etc. Good luck and don’t give up. Every state has an unaffiliated Dept of Veteran’s affairs office that is separate and apart from the Federal Dept of V.A. The cabinet level (federal Dept of Veteran’s affairs) is the last group of officers you should rely on to be treated fairly. Be sure it’s the STATE DEPT of V.A. Even though many times the state offices are located in the Federal buildings they are NOT affiliated with the highway robbers in the Cabinet level dept.
Hello. Do you have any more info on the SMC?
Just had third major surgery on my back paid for by the VA. Two cages and rods so far and neck fused twice. Never was told about SMC. Fighting for 100%. At 60 now. Thank you.
Sergeant Lou Van Norman-ARMY Combat Medical Specialist
I’ve seen monthly payouts for loss or loss of use of a limb or 100% P&T with very severe injuries that are more disabling than what is described under the 100% rating paid up to $10,000 or more and when combined with Soc Sec disability can approach $12,000. You owe it to yourself to become an expert of SMC. Don’t forget PTSD as another disabling condition that can get you closer to an “R” rating. That’s the place you want to be in the battle for fair treatment.
Michael, notify the VA that you have gotten married and they will request a copy of your marriage license. That is all you have to do. Your disability should increase at least $100 per month.
I would like to see dental benefits for veterans on disability.
I agree this makes no sense I’m not sure why this is like this
I need knees, both hips and both rotators taken care of. NO PROBLEM. Except I need all my teeth pulled first. They are soft and broken due to type 2 since 89. I only served 3 years with one being in Nam. I am at 80%.
I wouldike to see a free lifetime hunting and lifetime fishing license nation wide for disabled Vets 80% or higher and for Retirees..
i tottally agree don from arkansas
I, too totally agree with nation wide. I am also disabled and do a lot of fishing; my hunting has been curtailed some. But would love the available resources. Camping in Nat. Parks are available in CA.
Florida has free fishing and hunting licenses for 100% disabled Veterans