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

This app is convenient for some things. It has several glitching issues and boots you while working on typing messages and deletes the messages when you hit send and will log off on its own without warning. If you need to write a message that is longer than a couple of sentences, then use myhealthva.gov instead. That at least saves a draft rather than deleting it all and having to go back and rewrite it.

Worked OK for a while, but now when I attempt to log in, after entering email/password and doing the two-step verification through ID.me, when it sends me back to the app it just resets to the original log-in screen, rather than taking me on into the app. It will cycle me through this endless loop. I've tried resetting, reinstalling, clearing the cache...I literally cannot log in on the app. It's essentially useless.

The app works great, but i submitted an appeal through the app, within the proper time period, and it is not listed nor any record of it being sent can be seen by me, at least within the app, but i have a feeling it would also not be available on the proper websites that record and keep such files. There was a year or so, less or more, time period to submit such a file, and it hinders my case.

What's new

We added general improvements and fixed a few bugs.