VA: Health and Benefits

US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)

About this app

With the official VA: Health & Benefits app, you can manage your VA health care, benefits, and payments from your mobile phone or tablet.

Features include:

Biometric sign-in
- Use your phone’s built-in security features—like fingerprint and face recognition—to securely access your information.

Health care tools
- Refill and track your VA prescriptions.
- Send and receive secure messages from your VA health care team.
- Review appointments and add them to your calendar.
- Get your records for VA vaccines, such as COVID-19.

Benefits tools
- Check your disability rating.
- Review your claim or appeal status.
- Submit evidence for your claim or appeal.
- Download common VA letters.

Payments tools
- Review payments we’ve sent you.
- Update your direct deposit information.

Facility locator
- Find VA facilities and services near you.

Veterans Crisis Line
- Get quick access to the VA Crisis Line.

Proof of Veteran status
- Show proof of your Veteran status.

Need help with this app? Call us at 800-698-2411 (TTY: 711). We’re here 24/7.

Ratings and reviews

Nothing happens when I tap sign in. I was hoping for some kind of response. All I want to do is read a secure message. If I can't do that, the app is worthless to me. I have now used the app to request travel reimbursement. It worked well from my phone even though I had to submit verification three times before it moved on. Still, it was easier than previous processes. Now I'll just have to see how long it takes for the deposit.

The app works well, a little confusing at first, but relatively easy to use once you've been on it a few times, HOWEVER, please, put more info in the appointments section. Tell us what the appointments are for. Letters get lost, sometimes it's an appointment that may need to be rescheduled if it's not extremely important. Sometimes it's an important one or we may need a driver. Putt what clinic the appointment is for. It's missing in just about every single appointment I have scheduled

so, I've been using the app for the longest time. when it first came out the app was useless. barely usable. would freeze. information was not in the correct menu stack. fast forward years to the latest update they have fixed a ton. the app is not only intuitive but it doesn't freeze. now the only thing that is still very annoying is when you go into an appointment, to view the clinic name, it just says "Northport VA medical center" instead of the actual name of the clinic. for example "chiro"

What’s new

We updated the app with improvements to performance, guidance, and support:

Claims History now loads closed claims separately, improving performance and ensuring data displays as expected.
Added technical support content to the Contact VA page to make it easier to get help when needed.