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VETERANS RESOURCES
Information regarding VA Benefits,
Disability Compensation and Pension, Education and Training, Home Loans and Loan
Guaranty Services, Burial and VA Cemeteries, VA Forms is available at the
Department of Veterans' Affairs website. Information regarding
VA
facilities and Vet Centers can also be accessed. There are special programs
for homeless
veterans and those experiencing
Gulf War
Illness.
Military records are housed in three locations: the National Archives in
Washington, D.C., the Washington National Records Center in Suitland, Maryland,
and the National
Personnel Records Center (NPRC) in St. Louis, Missouri. Many veterans trying
to obtain their military records have been advised that those records were lost
in a fire in 1973 in St. Louis. Detailed information regarding what was lost is
available through: Fact Sheet:
Facts About the 1973 St. Louis Fire and Lost Records. Records at the NPRC
are frequently used to establish service connection for disability claims and
also to verify eligibility for awards and medals.
An inquiry can be made regarding the status of a claim for service-connected
disability, payment of education benefits, medical care at VA facilities, or
other problems. In order to assist a veteran with personal issues involving the
Department of Veterans
Affairs (VA), Senator Durbin must, by law, have a Privacy Act Consent form
signed by the veteran or a friend or family member who has power-of-attorney.
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