Veterans Benefits Network

Veteran-run forum community · Volunteer-run veteran community

One of the oldest veteran-to-veteran forums on the claims fight — and one of the only ones with dedicated boards for the VA Caregiver Program and for Survivor Benefits, the two rooms where families like ours actually live.

Why we carry them. The closest demographic match to the Vietnam-era, long-haul fight — and rare first-person evidence for the caregiver and survivor patterns.

Start here — their essential work

• VA Claims, Compensation, Benefits FAQ’s. (2007-10-16) — The forum’s living master FAQ, maintained since 2007 and still updated: service connection, rating protection, DIC, records requests, and how congressional inquiries actually work.
• VA Disability Claims (General) — The network’s main claims board — roughly 40,000 topics and 329,000 posts of veterans working live claims problems with experienced members.
• C&P Exams, DBQ’s, Etc — A deep board on Compensation & Pension exams and Disability Benefits Questionnaires — what examiners record, what goes wrong, and how veterans respond.
• Appeals — Board for legacy and AMA-era appeals — Higher-Level Review, supplemental claims, Board hearings, and cases that reach the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims.
• VA Caregiver Program — Dedicated board where family caregivers trade experience on PCAFC applications, stipends, denials, and reviews — rare first-person evidence on the caregiver program.
• Survivor Benefits — Board for DIC, death pension, and burial benefits, where surviving spouses work through survivor claims and compare what VA told them.
• VA Health Care Benefits & Issues — Nearly 5,000 topics on VA health care itself — Tricare, CHAMPVA, fee basis and community care, Medicare interactions, and getting treatment authorized.
• PACT Act Claims — Board tracking toxic-exposure claims under the PACT Act, including presumptive conditions and the exposure-litigation questions veterans are asking.
• AO, Heart Disease, Cancers, Parkinson’s… — Agent Orange board covering presumptive diseases and Blue Water Navy questions, with some of the most-read threads in the forum’s history.

Summaries are ours. The work is theirs — we link to it, we don’t lift it. Visit Veterans Benefits Network →