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Effective date: February 2019
If you have received a decision from a local VA office or a higher-level adjudicator with which you disagree, and you would like one or more issues to be decided by a Veterans Law Judge, you must fill out and submit a Notice of Disagreement. You can choose to appeal all or only some of the issues previously decided, however, ONLY those issues that you list on your Notice of Disagreement will be considered on appeal.
Effective: February 2019
Use this form to request a SUPPLEMENTAL CLAIM of the decision you received that you disagree with. A SUPPLEMENTAL CLAIM is a new review of an issue(s) previously decided by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) based on submission of new and relevant evidence.
Effective: February 2019
Use this form to request a HIGHER-LEVEL REVIEW of the decision you received. A HIGHER-LEVEL REVIEW is a new review of an issue(s) previously decided by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) based on the evidence of record at the time VA issued notice of the prior decision.
Effective: February 2019
This form is used to submit a Freedom on Information Act (FOIA) or Privacy Act Request. It must be signed by the requester or third-party authorized to act on behalf of the requester.
A FOIA request provides the public the right to request access to records from Federal agencies, except those protected by the nine FOIA exemptions. For additional information please visit https://www.va.gov/FOIA/Requests.asp.
A Privacy Act Request can be submitted by a citizen of the United States or an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence may request access to or amendment of records on herself/himself from a System of Records (SORs).
Examples of Privacy Act records are personal Claims Files (C-File), educational loan, and beneficiary records. For additional information please visit https://www.oprm.va.gov/privacy/.
Effective: October 2020
Use this form to request priority processing of a claim due to certain status or circumstances.
Effective: October 2020
This form is used for the submission of additional documentation or evidence in support of a VA claim.
Effective: October 2020
Veterans and Service Member should use this form to submit a claim for veterans disability compensation and related compensation benefits.
Use this form to expedite the process under the Fully Developed Claim Program (FDC)
Effective date: September 2019
Service Members with 6 months or less remaining on active duty can file a claim with the Department of Veterans Affairs
Form effective June 2016
Want your pension claim processed faster? Use this form to expedite the process under the Fully Developed Claim Program (FDC)
Date effective: October 2018
VA will pay a burial allowance up to $2000 if a veteran's death is service related. VA will also pay a burial and funeral allowance for nonservice-connected injuries. The person who paid the Veteran's burial expenses may apply for reimbursement from VA.
Effective: April 2017
Application used for surviving spouses and children to submit a claim for DIC. Death Pension, and/or Accrued benefits under the Fully Developed Claim Program (FDC)
Form effective: October 2018
To apply for accrued benefits due the beneficiary but not paid prior to death
Effective date: September 2019
Declaration of Status of Dependents used to add eligible family members to a veteran's VA running award.
Effective date: September 2018
This Notice of Disagreement is used to initiate an appeal from a VA decision for disability benefits you receive.
Effective: September 2018
This Form Is Used to Notify VA of Your Intent to File for the Compensation, Pension, Survivors Pension, and DIC Benefit(s). The Intent to File a claim process allows applicants additional time to gather all of the information and evidence needed to support their claim(s).
Intent to File replaces an informal claim.
38 CFR §3.155
Effective- August 2018
Veterans and Spouses would require assistance in performing their daily activities of living (ADLs), must have their primary care physician complete this form indicating the need for either Aid and Attendance (A&A) or Housebound status.
Effective: September 2018
Statement in support of claim.
Effective date: Jan 2018
Authorization for Release of Information
Effective date: Mar 2018
Veteran's Application for Increased Compensation Based on Unemployability
Effective date: October 2017
This form is used by the veteran/claimant or someone writing on your behalf to gather lay or witness statements that support an existing claim for benefits or service
Effective: August 2020
Use this form to apply for Educational Assistance under the following benefit programs:
- Post- 9/11 GI Bill Chapter 33 of title 38, U.S. Code
- Montgomery GI Bill (MGIB) Chapter 30 of title 38, U.S.Code
- Montgomery GI Bill - Selected Reserve (MGIB-SR) Chapter 1606 of Title 10, U.S. Code
- Reserve Educational Assistance Program (REAP) Chapter 1607 of Title 10, U.S. Code
- Post-Vietnam Era Veterans' Educational Assistance Program (VEAP) Chapter 32 of Title 38, U.S. Code, or Section 901 or Section 903 of Public Law 96-342
Do not use this form to apply for Veteran Readiness and Employment (VR&E), formerly called VA Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment benefits (Chapter 31 of Title 38, U.S. Code), Dependents Educational Assistance benefits (Chapter 35 of Title 38, U.S. Code), Transfer of Entitlement, or National Call to Service (Section 510 of Title 10, U.S. Code). These benefits require different application forms.
Effective: August 31, 2020
Do not use this form to apply for Veterans' education assistance based on your own service (chapters 30, 32, 33, 1606, or 1607) or Veteran Readiness and Employment (VR&E), formerly called VA Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment benefits (chapter 31).
To apply for Veterans' Education Assistance based on your own service, use VA Form 22-1990.
To apply for Veteran Readiness and Employment (VR&E) benefits, use VA Form 28-1900.
To qualify for Survivors' and Dependents' Educational Assistance (DEA) you must be either:
(1) The spouse or child of a veteran who is permanently and totally disabled as a result of a service-connected disability.
(2) The spouse or child of an individual on active duty who has been listed as missing in action, captured in the line of duty by hostile force, forcibly detained or interned in the line of duty by hostile force, or forcibly detained or interned in the line of duty by foreign government or power for more than 90 days.
(3) The surviving spouse or child of a veteran who died of a service-connected disability or who dies while a service-connected disability was rated permanent and total in nature.
(4) The surviving spouse or child of an individual on active duty for which the evidence shows that the individual is hospitalized for receiving outpatient medical care services or treatment; has a total disability permanent in nature incurred or aggravated in the line of duty in the active military, naval, or air service; and the serviceperson is likely to be discharged or released from such service for such disability.
Effective: August 31, 2020
Used to apply for Veteran Readiness and Employment (VR&E) benefits, formerly called VA Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment.
Veteran Readiness and Employment (VR&E) provides services and assistance to certain veterans with disabilities to get and keep a suitable job. If employment is not reasonably feasible, vocational rehabilitation may be able to provide services to support veterans with disabilities to achieve maximum independence in their daily living activities.
Effective: August 31, 2020
Use this form to submit a request for assistance with your Chapter 31 benefits.
Effective: August 2020
Disability Benefits Questionnaires (DBQs) are medical examination forms used to obtain important information for evaluating disability compensation and/or pension claims. VA physicians use DBQs when performing C&P exams for VA disability.
The purpose of a DBQ is to ensure that the physician performing the exam records all the information needed for VA to properly rate a disabled veteran’s conditions.
On 4/2/2020, VA sent a bulletin stating the Discontinuance of Publicly Available Disability Benefits Questionnaires (DBQs). VA states they are "modernized"; whereby they are currently more than half-way through the process of updating all body systems in the VASRD (VA Schedule for Rating Disabilities), since the last update in 1945. As each body system is updated, so are the corresponding DBQs.
GOOD NEWS: The Johnny Isakson and David P. Roe, M.D. Veterans Health Care and Benefits Improvement Act of 2020 signed into law on January 5, 2021, required VA to reinstate the public use Disability Benefits Questionnaires (DBQs) and publish them on VA’s website.
In compliance with this Act, the public facing DBQs have been published and are available as of March 1, 2021, at the following link: here.
https://www.benefits.va.gov/compensation/dbq_publicdbqs.asp
Used to correct an error or injustice which affects your military record.
Used to request an upgrade of a military discharge from the appropriate discharge review board.
Used to request information from military records, such as DD 214, service treatment records, personnel records, medals, etc.