The Department of Veterans Affairs has published its annual resource handbook, called Federal Benefits for Veterans and Dependents. It details the benefits programs available for eligible veterans and their families. The handbook is a bestseller for the Government Printing Office, which makes hardbound copies of the book available for a fee ($5), or you can download the 153-page book in its entirety as a PDF on the Web (you must have Adobe Acrobat installed, but that's free.) Click here for the downloadable PDF copy on the Web.
(If you need to order a hardbound copy of the book, you can do that by contacting the Government Printing Office at the following address: Superintendent of Documents, P.O. Box 979050, St. Louis, MO 63197-9000 (stock #051-000-00233-4). You can also order the book online by clicking this link. The Government Printing Office accepts credit cards at their toll-free number, (866) 512-1800. The cost is $5 a book or $67 for 25 copies. The stock is #051-000-00233-4.) (Obviously, the downloadable version of the book is free on the Web.)
The good news is, most veterans do qualify for some VA benefits. As we noted recently in a previous blog entry linked here, often veterans are slow to realize they qualify, for a number of reasons, and this slows down the process of getting them the benefits they have actually earned. Don't be one of those vets -- order the book today, or download a copy, and keep it on file for the future, if not for today.
