Offering Veterans assistance with compensation, pension, and death benefits. Also offering assistance with education, health care, and Veteran's benefits

Provides civil legal services to low-income individuals and families. Offers representation/legal advice in areas such as the following: Protection from abuse; Child custody/visitation; Landlord/tenant disputes, public housing; Criminal Record Expungement Assistance; Government benefits (TANF, LIHEAP, Food Stamps/SNAP, and Unemployment Compensation); Utility Shut Offs; Sheriff's sales/levy's; Consumer; Mortgage foreclosures; Low Income Taxpayers Clinic; Guardianships; Legal Services for Veterans - Homeless/Near Homeless; Elder Law.

Provides civil legal services to low-income individuals and families. Offers representation/legal advice in areas such as the following: Protection from abuse; Child custody/visitation; Landlord/tenant disputes, public housing; Criminal Record Expungement Assistance; Government benefits (TANF, LIHEAP, Food Stamps/SNAP, and Unemployment Compensation); Utility Shut Offs; Sheriff's sales/levy's; Consumer; Mortgage foreclosures; Low Income Taxpayers Clinic; Guardianships; Legal Services for Veterans - Homeless/Near Homeless; Elder Law.

Welcome Home Checklist Please Note: If you are a severely disabled Veteran and need any special accommodations, please identify that to your service officer or career counselor when making appointments. Receive your DD 214 Things to do within one year from Separation Have your DD 214 recorded in the County Recorder's Office for FREE

• Safeguard all your records. You will need them again.

Visit your County Director of Veterans Affairs (normally located in the County Courthouse) or Accredited Service Organization Representative for FREE

• Take a copy of all your records with you for your appointment: Service Medical Records; Personnel File; Dental Record,
• Have your County Director of Veterans Affairs or Accredited Veterans Service Officer review your records and advise you on the benefits you qualify for,
• File for disabilities through an Accredited Veterans Service Officer.

Fill out VA form 10-10 EZ for

Provides assistance to veterans and their families in obtaining benefits and services earned through military service and provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and other government agencies.

Provides outreach concerning its program services to the American people generally and to disabled veterans and their families, specifically.

Providing a structure through which disabled veterans can express their compassion for their fellow veterans through a variety of volunteer programs.

Provides housing and supportive services to veterans with histories of homelessness, substance use, and/or varying degrees of behavioral health challenges. Programs include Hospital to Housing, Intensive Transitional Housing, Bridge Housing, Emergency Residential Services, and Transitional Housing for Veterans with Serious Mental Illness.

Provides eligible veteran households with outreach, assessment, case management, advocacy and assistance in obtaining VA and other benefits, which may include housing counseling, legal support, credit repair, financial planning services, and time-limited, temporary financial assistance.

Provides civil legal services to low-income individuals and families. Offers representation/legal advice in areas such as the following: Protection from abuse; Child custody/visitation; Landlord/tenant disputes, public housing; Criminal Record Expungement Assistance; Government benefits (TANF, LIHEAP, Food Stamps/SNAP, and Unemployment Compensation); Utility Shut Offs; Sheriff's sales/levy's; Consumer; Mortgage foreclosures; Low Income Taxpayers Clinic; Guardianships; Legal Services for Veterans - Homeless/Near Homeless; Elder Law.

Provides information and referral for Veterans and dependents to other federal, state, county agencies and organizations that might further assist them.

Provides legal assistance for individuals and families in need of help with labor law, employment discimination, public assistance, worker's compensation, unemployment benefits, pension and social security benefits, and tax disputes. Services include help with application and appeals, filings, and legal representation.

Provides eligible veteran households with outreach, assessment, case management, advocacy and assistance in obtaining VA and other benefits, which may include housing counseling, legal support, credit repair, financial planning services, and time-limited, temporary financial assistance.

Assists veterans and/or their dependents in receiving education benefits. Provides financial assistance to either the children of honorably discharged veterans or the veteran themselves.

Services of this office include burial assistance, records maintenance, providing grave markers, flags and holders for all County veterans graves and financial assistance to county cemeteries holding veterans. State benefits applied for through this office include tax exemption and educational assistance for 100% disabled veterans, emergency assistance, applications for the blind, paralyzed veterans and veterans homes. Federal Veterans Benefits applied for through this office include health care, service connected compensation, pension assistance for disabled unemployable veterans and counseling for surviving family members and returning veterans.

Assist veterans and their dependents in obtaining available benefits. Discusses and submits applications for entitled benefits, including but not limited to compensations and pension, hospitalization and out-patient care, education, home loans, insurance and special housing and automobile grants.

Provides benefits and other information and resources to veterans.

Focusing on service to veterans, service members and communities. Programs for Family, Youth, Community and National Affairs. Help with VA claims, assistance in finding employment, support for current members of the military, and financial advice.

Provides assistance to veterans and their families in obtaining benefits and services earned through military service and provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and other government agencies.

Provides outreach concerning its program services to the American people generally and to disabled veterans and their families, specifically.

Providing a structure through which disabled veterans can express their compassion for their fellow veterans through a variety of volunteer programs.

Community-service organization of organizations to support the Lehigh Valley’s active and reserve component military service members, its veterans, and their families. Both a forum and as a focal point organization, that provides the opportunity for an entire regional community “not only a veterans-based one“ to care for its own. Teaches others to help in meaningful ways and advocates on behalf of a substantial, local military-veteran community on issues of relevance and importance. Organizes or supports programs which tackle the support of local military units when deployed, the support of families of service members, the transition of returning veterans, and the recovery of veterans requiring additional help.

Assists veterans and their families with service-connected disability claims, VA pension claims, veteran burial benefits, education benefits, home loan guarantees, healthcare eligibility, and appeals.

Provides assistance to veterans and their families with applying for the benefits they have earned during their service.

Assists veterans and their families with career counseling, resume preparation, job search assistance, suicide prevention, and possible one-time financial assistance in the case of a demonstrated emergency. Also provides information about services and benefits available through the Veterans Health Administration, Veterans Benefits Administration, and National Cemetery Administration, as well as various state and local veteran-specific resources, for which the client might qualify

Assists veterans and their dependents and survivors to obtain benefits from the federal, state and local agencies administering programs for veterans.

Provides temporary financial assistance to Veterans experiencing a housing crisis.

Assists veterans and their family members with information regarding federal, state, and local benefits. Services include assistance in filing for and accessing compensation for service connected disability, pension for veterans unable to work, vocational rehabilitation and counseling, payment for education and job training, home loan guaranty, life insurance, "wheelchair homes," burial benefits, dependency and indemnity compensation, and death pension.

Provides assistance in applying for county, state and federal benefits to Pennsylvania's veterans and their families. Veterans Services provides a wide range of benefits, resources and assistance. State benefits include: Blind Veterans Pension, Emergency Assistance, Educational Gratuity, Paralyzed Veterans Pension, Real Property Tax Exemption, State Veterans Home System, Widow's Real Property Tax Exemption Federal benefits include: Disability Compensation, eBenefits, Education & Training, GI Bill, Healthcare, Life Insurance, Mortgage Delinquency Assistance, Pension, Survivor Benefits(DIC), VA Guaranteed Home Loans