Veterans with Disabilities

The VA-VR&E service is vested with delivering timely, effective vocational rehabilitation services to veterans with service-connected disabilities. Enabling our injured soldiers, sailors, airmen, and other veterans with disabilities for a seamless transition from military service to a successful rehabilitation and on to suitable employment after service to our Nation.

VA Disability Compensation is a monthly payment that varies in proportion to the degree of disability.  Rates for veterans with dependents may be higher.  The benefits are tax-free. In order to qualify for this benefit program, you must have a service-connected disability, injury or disease and must have been discharged under other than dishonorable conditions.  There’s no requirement as to length of service.  Compensation may also be paid to certain veterans who...

The National Resource Directory (NRD) is an online tool for wounded, ill and injured Service Members, Veterans, their families, and those who support them.  The NRD provides access to more than 11,000 services and resources at the national, state and local levels that support recovery, rehabilitation and community reintegration.

https://www.nationalresourcedirectory.org/nrd/public/...

A U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) project that focuses on the employment challenges of returning service members living with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and/or Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Designed for employers and the workforce development system, this Web site is your link to information and tools to help returning service members affected by TBI and/or PTSD succeed in the workplace - particularly service members returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.

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With traumatic brain injury (TBI) being one of the leading diagnoses of combat injuries, the Defense & Veterans Brain Injury Center (DVBIC) has launched a new website to provide useful content and assistance to those service members affected.  The site, developed with marketing innovation company Griffin York & Krause (GY&K), provides information about TBI from the military health perspective, and...

Join the brain injury support group for Veterans and Military families.

The group meets on the first Monday of every month (excluding holidays).

When: 6:30-8:00p.m MT
Where: Western Nebraska Community College
            1601 E. 27th Street, Scottsbluff, NE 69361

For more information, contact Marcia Stuckey

A Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (VR&E) Service website that emphasizes employment for veterans with service-connected disabilities.

http://vetsuccess.gov/

A 24/7 Resource for military members, spouses & families.

Call toll-free at 800-342-9647 or visit:

http://www.militaryonesource.com/home.aspx?MRole=&Branch=&Component=

Veterans and their families will find information on their rights, benefits, Nebraska's veterans' homes, county offices, and links to other federal and state sources of information.

Contact via phone at 402-471-2458 or visit:

http://www.vets.state.ne.us/

The Returning Veterans Resource Network is composed from all branches of service and conflicts. Collectively, but not limited to, we have come together to help OIF/OEF Veterans with their problems after returning home from war. Provides mentoring, information, and referrals to appropriate and necessary services

http://www.omahavetnet.org/

Organized in 2004 as a grassroots effort whose mission is to offer support to the families of American Service members and Veterans who have suffered traumatic brain injuries.

http://www.avbi.org/

Wounded Warrior Project's Warriors to Work program helps individuals recovering from severe injuries received in the line of duty connect with the support and resources they need to build a career in the civilian workforce. It can be tough to transition into civilian life.  It's even tougher to adjust to life after a serious injury. Warriors to Work is a free service for the new generation of service men and women who have been injured in the line of duty.

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Made up exclusively of men and women disabled in our nation’s defense, the Disabled American Veterans is dedicated to one, single purpose — building better lives for all of our nation’s disabled veterans and their families.

http://www.dav.org/

What is “Presumptive” Service Connection?
VA presumes that specific disabilities diagnosed in certain veterans were caused by their military service.  VA does this because of the unique circumstances of their military service.  If one of these conditions is diagnosed in a veteran in one of these groups, VA presumes that the circumstances of his/her service caused the condition, and disability compensation can be awarded.

VONAPP is an interactive Web site where veterans can apply for VA Compensation and Pension benefits. This site is designed to walk the claimant through the application questions and provides helpful text along the way. It also allows the applicant to submit the claim electronically, receive a confirmation number, and informs the claimant which VA office has jurisdiction...

Disability compensation is a tax-free benefit paid to a veteran for disabilities that are a result of or made worse by injuries or diseases that happened while on active duty, active duty for training, or inactive duty training.  Disability compensation is also paid to certain veterans disabled from VA health care.

Vocational Rehabilitation is a program whose primary function is to help veterans with service-connected disabilities become suitably employed, maintain employment, or achieve independence in daily living.  Once entitlement to vocational rehabilitation has been established, the veteran and the VA counselor work together to develop a Rehabilitation Plan.  Veterans decide the best way to reach their...

Register for webcasts from the entire listing Homeless Veterans Reintegration Program Webcast Series, including the titles below.

http://www.militaryfamily.org/your-benefits/wounded-warriors/

The National Military Family Association strongly believes that wounded service members have wounded families and that our Nation must ensure the emotional, financial, and readjustment requirements of these families are met.