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

App only works about 50% of the time (if that) and is generally pretty slow to update even when it is working. Have gotten mail notifications (dated two weeks prior) before the app updated on multiple occasions. Have to get on the website to file claims anyway, app only lets you check on the status of (some) claims that are already filed. Somewhat helpful for that if you're away from your computer but otherwise pretty useless.

Solid, seems secure, and has drastically improved as far as being user friendly goes. Access your documents, download your service connection award letters, paperwork, talk to your Doctors in a secure and confidential setting, refill medications, and view upcoming appointments. I had concerns at first about how difficult it would be to log in, considering there's several ways you can do so, but once you've activated your account, it seems pretty smooth sailing.

The app is great but there's this one annoying bug. I have to keep turning on the notification setting every time I log into the app. For some reason, every time I log out, the notification setting is turned off. There's absolutely no way of fixing this from my end. I've tried everything. So, other than having to keep going into the settings and turning on my notifications every time I log in, this app is great!

What’s new

We added general improvements and fixed a few bugs.