Alumni Resource Center

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Certificate of Eligibility for home loan guarantee

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Access to Commissary/BX with VA ID card showing service connection at 10% or above

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Home loan guarantee user fee exemption

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Home improvement and Structural Alterations (HISA) Grant (Maximum $4100)

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VA Priority medical treatment card

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Vocational Rehabilitation and Counseling under Title 38 USC, Chapter 31 (must be at least 10%)

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Service Disabled Veterans Life Insurance (Maximum $10,000 coverage), must be filed within 2

years from date established a

new

service connection.

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Ten point preference (10 points added to Civil Service test score)

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Annual clothing allowance for veterans who use or wear a prosthetic or orthopedic appliance

(artificial, limb, brace, wheelchair) or use prescribed medications for a service connected skin

condition which tend to wear or soil clothing.

Temporary total evaluation (100%) based upon hospitalization for a service connected disability in excess

of 21 days; or surgical treatment for a service connected disability necessitating at least 1 month or

convalescence or immobilization by cast, without surgery of one or more major joints

30% Service Connected In addition to the above:

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Additional allowance for dependent spouse, child(ren), step child(ren), helpless child(ren), full

time students between the ages of 18 and 23 and parent(s).

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Additional allowance for a spouse who is a patient in a nursing home or helpless or blind or so

nearly helpless or blind as to require the regular aid and attendance of another person.

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Non-competitive Federal employment

40% Service Connected In addition to the above:

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Automobile grant and/or special adaptive equipment for an automobile provided there is a loss of

permanent loss of use of one or both feet, loss or permanent loss of use of one or both hands or

permanent impaired vision of both eyes with central visual acuity of 20/200 or less in the better

eye.

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Special Adaptive equipment may also be applied for if there is ankyloses of one or both knees or

one or both hips.

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VA medical outpatient treatment for any condition except dental

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Preventative healthcare services

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Hospital care and medical services in non-VA facilities under an authorized fee basis agreement

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Increased compensation (100%) based on individual unemployability (applies to veterans who are

unable to obtain or maintain substantially gainful employment due to service connected

disability).

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Ohio War Orphans Scholarship

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Contract Nursing Home care through VHA or Ohio Veteran’s Home

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Dental Treatment at the VA Medical Center

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Waiver of National Service Life Insurance Premiums

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Option of additional $20,000 RH Life Insurance

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Veterans employment preference for spouse

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Department of Defense Commissary privileges

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Specially Adapted Housing for veterans who have loss or permanent loss of use of both lower

extremities or blindness in both eyes having only light perception plus loss or permanent loss of

use of one upper extremity or the loss or permanent loss of use of one extremity together with an

organic disease which effects the function of balance and propulsion as to preclude locomotion

without the aid of braces, crutches, canes, or wheelchair.

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Special Home Adaptation Grant (for veterans who don’t qualify for Specially Adapted Housing)

may be applied for if the veteran is permanently and totally disabled due to blindness in both eyes

with visual acuity of 5/200 or less or permanent loss of use of both hands.

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Commissary and Exchange privileges for veteran and dependents: The veteran must request a

letter from the VA specifying veteran is in receipt of 100% disability, and then applies for a

military ID card at the nearest ID card issuing facility. Schedule the appointment at the following

websites:

100% Permanent and Totally Disabled – In addition to the above:

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Civilian Health and Medical Program for dependents and survivors (CHAMPVA)

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Survivors and dependents education assistance under Title 38 USC Chapter 35 Dependent

Education Assistance (DEA).

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Property Tax Reduction through county of residence

STATE BENEFITS:

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Free

Hunting/Fishing License, Entry into State Parks, Entry into National Parks, Gratis

Plates

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Ohio War Orphans Scholarship Program. Dependents must be under 21. Veteran must be rated

60% or more by the VA. Must be an Ohio resident for 4 of the last 10 years. Tuition is free

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Exempt from registration fees for watercraft such as motorboats, sailboats, canoes, kayaks,

rowboats, and inflatable watercrafts for Medal of Honor recipients, veterans entitled to receive

compensation at 100% rate, veterans who have been awarded the automobile grant, former POWs

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Exemption from boat trailer registration fees and taxes for MOH recipients, P&T veterans in

receipt of compensation or pension, veteran that have awarded the automobile grant, former

POWs