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Decision Ready Claims
An accredited VSO can assist with filing your DRC claim for direct service connection, presumptive connection, secondary service connection, increased disability, DIC, and pre-discharge.
Service-Disabled Veterans Insurance
S-DVI provides up to $10,000 of life insurance coverage to Veterans who separated from service on or after April 25, 1951 under other than dishonorable conditions.
Local Events and Happenings
Outreach Services
Dates, Times and Locations:
The Homeless Coordinator of the Buffalo Regional Office will be on the 3rd floor of the St. Vincent DePaul building at 1298 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14209, every Wednesday from 9:00am to noon. The Homeless Coordinator will also be at the Veterans One-stop Center of WNY at 1280 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14209 every Wednesday from 12:30pm to 3:00pm. The Homeless Coordinator will be able to provide assistance and answer questions regarding VA benefits for Veterans, Servicemembers, and their families.
Inside Veterans Benefits
Yoga for PTSD
The 'Veterans Yoga Project,' an Alameda-based nonprofit, works with VA to offer yoga and mindful resilience training as a pathway to healing for Veterans with PTSD.
Cyber Innovation
VA is exploring a series of innovation projects using predictive analytics, machine learning, and other emerging technologies to help track potential threats across VA’s IT enterprise.
Always Faithful
Guido Filippone, a Marine who served between 2004 and 2008, helped raise money to pay for WWII Veteran Mike Gazella's medical bills. The two met by chance in a VA parking lot.
Nationwide Restructuring
VA is restructuring the lines of communication between the Veteran Integrated Service Networks in the field and VA Central Office. The plan will be presented to Congress on July 1.
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