Veterans Services

Veterans Services

There are a number of challenges for veterans after leaving the military. Among these are mental health, physical disabilities, housing insecurity, and access to health coverage, just to name a few. This guide provides resources to veterans’ rights groups, Veteran Service Organizations, and individual veterans and caregivers to obtain access to financial resources, career search and skills building opportunities, secure housing, and healthcare assistance.

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Legislative Committees

House Committee on Defense and Veterans Affairs

This committee handles legislation and oversight related to Georgia’s Department of Defense, military personnel, and organizations providing service to military
veterans.

Senate Committee on Veterans, Military, and Homeland Security

This committee has general jurisdiction over legislation related to Georgia’s Department of Defense, military personnel, Department of Homeland Security, emergency response organizations, and organizations providing services to military veterans.

View Veterans Services Organizations:

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International

Fisher House Foundation
The Fisher House Foundation is located at military and VA medical centers around the world and builds comfort homes for military and veteran families to stay in free of charge while a loved one is in the hospital.

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National

American Legion
Helps veterans and their families through financial assistance, service centers and recreational activities.


AMVETS (American Veterans)
Seeks to improve the lives of veterans, their families, and communities by offering help in filing VA claims, healthcare advocacy, career centers, scholarships, reintegration programs, and education.


Blinded Veterans Association
Serves as ambassadors and mentors for veterans their families coping with sight loss.


Creativets
Empowers wounded veterans to heal through the arts and music. It offers a songwriting program and visual arts program.


Disabled American Veterans
Provides support for veterans of all generations and their families.


Disabled Veteran Empowerment Network
Donates money to organizations helping veterans and provides educational resources.


Folds of Honor
Provides scholarships to the spouses and children of America’s fallen and disabled service members.

Hope for the Warriors
Dedicated to helping servicemembers and their families by providing clinical health & wellness, transition services, and sports and recreation.


Military Benefit Foundation
Helps military families through veteran suicide prevention, assistance of families of veteran suicides, and veteran employment assistance.


Operation Home Front
Helps military families by providing financial relief, transitional housing, permanent mortgage-free housing, caregiver support services, and recurring family support programs.


Operation First Response
Serves military and first responder families by providing emergency financial needs.


Paralyzed Veterans of America
Donates money to paralyzed veterans, provides education on travel with passengers with disabilities, advocates for veterans, and provides a research grant.


Salute Heroes
Helps severely wounded veterans and their families recover from injuries and illnesses by providing financial support, meals, and gifts.


Salute, Inc.
Provides financial and emotional support to servicemembers and their families.


Still Serving Veterans
Serves and honors veterans and their families by empowering them to build careers and use benefits and services.

USA Cares
Provides post-9/11 military veterans, servicemembers, and their families with financial assistance and post service training to create foundations for long-term stability and avoid veteran suicide.


Veterans Educational Success
This organization of bipartisan policy experts, academic researchers, lawyers, and advocates bridge the military-civilian divide to ensure career and education success for military families by providing free help for veterans and military-connected students, research and reports, policy advocacy and legal advocacy.


Veterans of Foreign Wars
Advocates for, fosters camaraderie among and provides resources for veterans.


Warriors Heart Foundation
Supports programs addressing the unmet needs of servicemen and women suffering from overcoming addiction, post-traumatic stress disorder, mild traumatic brain injury, and suicidal thoughts.

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Statewide

Georgia Department of Veterans Services
Counsels, advises, and assists Georgia’s veterans and their families to receive the benefits they are entitled to under veteran’s laws.

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Metro Atlanta

Catholic Charities Atlanta: Veterans Support Services
This organization helps veterans and their families navigate public and VA benefits, provides financial literacy workshops and education planning, and offers mental health counseling.


Georgia Tech – Veterans Services
Part of the Registrar’s Office at Georgia Tech, this division serves as a liaison between Georgia Tech veteran students and Veteran Affairs. Their primary purpose is assisting veteran students with processing forms for educational benefits, educating them on procedural requirements, and certifying the enrollment of veteran students with Veteran Affairs.


VA Atlanta Health Care
Provides patient-centered healthcare via an array of comprehensive medical, surgical, and geriatric specialty services.


Veterans Benefits Administration – Atlanta Regional Office
Offers services from American Legion, AMVETS, Blinded Veterans Association, Disabled American Veterans, Georgia Department of Veterans Services, Paralyzed Veterans of America, and Veterans of Foreign Wars.

Catholic Charities Atlanta: Veterans Support Services
This organization helps veterans and their families navigate public and VA benefits, provides financial literacy workshops and education planning, and offers mental health counseling.

Georgia Tech – Veterans Services
Part of the Registrar’s Office at Georgia Tech, this division serves as a liaison between Georgia Tech veteran students and Veteran Affairs. Their primary purpose is assisting veteran students with processing forms for educational benefits, educating them on procedural requirements, and certifying the enrollment of veteran students with Veteran Affairs.


VA Atlanta Health Care
Provides patient-centered healthcare via an array of comprehensive medical, surgical, and geriatric specialty services.


Veterans Benefits Administration – Atlanta Regional Office
Offers services from American Legion, AMVETS, Blinded Veterans Association, Disabled American Veterans, Georgia Department of Veterans Services, Paralyzed Veterans of America, and Veterans of Foreign Wars.

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Veterans Services Resources

Department of Defense Office of Inspector General
Audit of Controls at Military Installations for Schools Participating in the DoD Tuition Assistance Program DODIG-2019-122


Department of Veterans Affairs
Veterans Benefits Administration Reports

VA’s Guidance to Schools on Correcting Violations of 38 USC 3696

VA’s Revised Guidance to Schools on Correcting Violations of 38 USC 3696


Disabled Veteran Empowerment Network
Federal Trade Commission Lists Fraudulent Veteran Charities

Georgia Watch
Military Consumer Protection Tips

Military Consumer Protection Initiative

The Georgia Military Consumer Protection Guide

House Education and Labor Committee (on Veterans Education Success)
House Education and Labor Committee Report: “Delayed and Denied: Borrower Defense Relief Under the Trump Administration”


Military Benefits Foundation
Air Force Review Boards Agency

Army Military Human Resource Record (AMHRR)

Definition of a War Veteran

Discharge Appeal Review Board (DARB)

Form DD214: Understanding Character of Discharge

Form DD215

How to Check Someone Else’s Military Service Records

How to Find Family Military Records for History of Military Units

How to Get a DD 214 Copy

How to Get a Veterans ID Card

How to Read DD Form 214

How to Replace Lost Military Medals

Military ID Cards

Official Military and Veteran Forms

Real ID Act

Replacement Dog Tags

Service Treatment Records (STRs)

VA Veteran Health ID Card (VHIC)

Veterans ID Card Veterans ID on Driver’s License or ID Card by State


Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness
Department of Defense Report: Credentialing Program Utilization

Offices of Elizabeth Warren and Richard J. Durbin
Insult to Injury: How the DeVos Department of Education is Failing Defrauded Students


SAS Global (on Veterans Education Success)
SAS Global Forum 2020 Report: Post-9/11 GI Bill: Teasing Out Insights About Veterans’ Success in Postsecondary Education


Senate Democratic Caucus
Senate Democratic Caucus Higher Education Act Reauthorization Principles


Student Borrower Protection Center (on Veterans Education Success)
Report: Protecting Military Borrowers: How the Department of Education Can Restore the Promise of Public Service Loan Forgiveness to American Servicemembers


Total Mortgage
The Guide to Financial Planning for Servicemembers and Veterans


U.S. Department of Education
A Profile of the Enrollment Patterns and Demographic Characteristics of Undergraduates at For-Profit Institutions


U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Agent Orange and Survivors’ Benefits

Agent Orange Registry Health Exam for Veterans

Benefits for Veterans’ Children with Birth Defects

Benefits Overview for Agent Orange Exposure

Blue Water Navy Veterans and Agent Orange Exposure

Health Care for Veterans Exposed to Agent Orange

How to file a VA disability claim

Veterans’ Diseases Associated with Agent Orange

U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Education Denied: The Importance of Assisting Veterans Harmed by School Closures


U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee
Is the New G.I. Bill Working?: For-Profit Colleges Increasing Veteran Enrollment and Federal Funds


Veterans Education Success
Advice for Accreditors

Analysis of Higher Education Relief Funds for Coronavirus: How Will They Be Allocated Across
Institutional Sectors?

Analysis of the Impact of Closing the 90/10 Loophole

Annual and Cumulative Student Loan Debt Among Veterans Using and Not Using GI Bill Benefits

Are Student Veterans Going to be Denied Access to CARES Act Emergency Relief Funds?

Borrower Defense Rule and Its Importance to Veterans

Career Education Colleges and Universities: Outcomes at Selected Member Schools

Coronavirus-Related Legislation and Its Relevance to GI Bill and Other VA-Supported Students

COVID-19 and Postsecondary Enrollment: Lessons from the Last Recession

Despite a 2016 Statute, the GI Bill Still Pays for Degrees That Do Not Lead to a Job

Factsheet: Defense Department Tuition Assistance Program: Enrollment and Credentials
Earned, by Institutional Sector, for Fiscal Year 2019

Impact of Disability on First-Time Student Veterans’ Persistence and Attainment

The Incentive Compensation Ban and Its Importance to Veterans

Issue Brief: Investigative Analysis: Advertising Trends for Selected Postsecondary Institutions during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Postsecondary Non-Completion Among Veterans: Contributing Factors and Implications

Postsecondary Outcomes for Undergraduate Veterans of Color

Predatory Practices and Disproportionate Impacts on Student Veterans Is Revealed in New Report on College Transcript Withholding

Proposed Short-Term Pell Safeguards Should Be Further Strengthened

Law Enforcement Actions Against Predatory Colleges

Our Analysis: Project’s Findings on the Effect of Closing the 90/10 Loophole Have Serious Shortcomings

Overemphasis on Payment Accuracy Impedes More Effective SAA Oversight of Schools Participating in the GI Bill

Proposed Borrower Defense Rule: Worse than 2016 or Military Connected Students

Proposed Education Department Regulatory Changes Should be Reevaluated Based on GI Bill Oversight Lessons

Public Service Loan Forgiveness: DOD and Its Personnel Could Benefit from Additional Program Information

Schools with Repeat Law Enforcement Settlements

Strengthening the Student Loan System to Better Protect All Borrowers

Student Outcomes at Colleges Approved by the Accreditor ACICS

The Student Veteran Experience with Transcript Withholding

The Gainful Employment Rule and Its Importance to U.S. Veterans

The 85-15 Rule and Related GI Bill Safeguards

U.S. Department of Education, New Analysis Finds Many For-Profit Colleges Skirt Federal Funding Limits

VA and States Should Act on Early Warning Signs When Risks to GI Bill Beneficiaries and Taxpayers Emerge at Participating Schools

VA Still Not Enforcing 1974 Ban on Schools that Engage in Deceptive Advertising and Recruiting

Veteran Student Loan Debt Before and After the Post-9/11 GI Bill

Veteran Student Loan Debt 7 Years After Implementation of the Post-9/11 GI Bill

Veterans’ Use of Private Student Loans: A Primer

Veterans with Student Loans They Never Authorized or Wanted

Weak Return on Investment at Trade Schools that Enroll GI Bill Beneficiaries

Why For-Profit Schools are Targeting Veterans Education Benefits