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

I'm very grateful the VA has at least made the attempt to have an app like this for veterans. However, there is much to be improved especially when it comes to Veterans with diminished visual acuity. sometimes the app requires you to literally log in it doesn't times just to get in. Sometimes the app doesn't work for days at a time. The messaging portion still functions as poorly as Windows 95. At least we have something but this app certainly needs lots of improvement!

UPDATE: The app randomly shuts my phone off when I launch it now. Great! The app almost always has some sort of issues going on. You may not be able to login sometimes, the app itself will divert you to the website instead, alerts will stop working - whatever you can think of will happen. They need a dev team that knows what they're doing, not the lowest bidder...

Terrible app. It's basically a more terrible version of the MyHealtheVet App. I have biometrics enabled for sign in, but when I use my finger print it still takes me to the sign in page. When I type my password... it then asks to send a confirmation text with a code to the phone I just used to log in with my finger print. It doesn't list my appointments or health info, so I always have to ultimately log through a web browser. The most useless app on my phone.

What's new

We added general improvements and fixed a few bugs.