United States Department of Veterans Affairs
Returning Service Members (OEF/OIF)

VA Services: Vocational Rehabilitation & Employment

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Help for those with service-connected disabilities

VA’s program helps Active Duty service members and Veterans who have service-connected disabilities become:

  • Suitably employed
  • Maintain employment, or
  • Achieve independence in daily living

Basic Eligibility

  • Have received, or will receive, a discharge that is other than dishonorable
  • Have a service-connected disability rating of at least 10%, or a memorandum rating of 20% or more from VA
  • Apply for Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (VR&E) VetSuccess services

The basic period of eligibility in which VR&E VetSuccess services may be used is 12 years from the latter of the following:

  • Date of separation from active military service, or
  • Date the veteran was first notified by VA of a service-connected disability rating.

More information here:  Vocational Rehabilitation & Employment