What am i eligible for in the va program?

Question

I served in the U.S. Air Force (active) for 2 years and 3 months. What are my va benefits? My code is 2B. Can I reenlist?

Answer 1

Not exactly sure what RE-2B translates to, but I always thought re-enlistment was possible with anything but an RE-4.

As far as VA benefits, a lot depends on what your situation is. Usually of highest concern to seperating or seperated service members is Healthcare, Disability Rating and Education.

For Healthcare, you need to apply for benefits and have what they call a C & P Physical. C&P stands for compensation and pension. This is where the VA makes a determination on the degree of disability due to injury, illness or prior medical treatment while in an active status. List on your application anything and everything you ever went to the flight surgeon for or to the hospital or clinic or whatever while you were active and let them sort out the rest.

As for education, I'm not sure what GI Bill program you had, but I remember the last one when I was in was the Montgomery GI Bill which was a contribute and match scenario. Outside of that, if you are disabled at atleast 10% and feel you need additional training to get a civillian job, you can apply for the Vocational Rehabilitation Program. This is a program where, for disabled veterans with limiting disabilities, the VA pays for school tuition, books, fees and miscellaneous costs while also paying the Veteran a monthly Stipen (About $800) while attending school. Not everyone is accepted in this program, but once you have a rating apply, the worst case scenario is they say no.

For health care, whether Service Connected Disabled or not, you can get some treatment at a VA healthcare facility. If not service connected disabled there is some co-pays for treatment and/or medicines depending on your financial status. You fill out a "Means Test" for them determine if you can afford co-pay or not.

Best advice is go to the VA nearest you ant talk to their benefits department and start the process of getting into the VA system.

Answer 2

If you have been discharged with an Honorable condition then you should be qualified for the G.I. bill. The best way to find this out is go to your local VFW hall and register. The people who work their, are all vets who would love nothing better then getting you your benefits. Just bring in a copy (never the original) of your DD-214 to the hall to see what you can qualify for. You can also check out this website www.va.gov for more details. Hope this helps.

Answer 3

They didn't go over that with you when you were seperated from Active Duty?