VA and DoD benefits explained precisely: eligibility gates, dollar figures and dates from published guidance.
The VA home loan program's basic entitlement is $36,000 — not a borrowing cap but the maximum the VA will pay a lender on loans of $144,000 or less, per VA published guidance. With full entitlement there is no loan limit, and the one-time funding fee runs 2.15 percent for first-time use with a…
The PACT Act — the Sergeant First Class Heath Robinson Honoring our Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics Act of 2022 — is perhaps the largest benefit expansion in Department of Veterans Affairs history, covering veterans exposed to burn pits, Agent Orange, and other toxic substances.…
Basic Allowance for Housing, or BAH, is the monthly allowance that lets members live off base, and its legal basis is 37 U.S.C. 403, amended directly by Congress whenever the benefit changes. The housing it touches is largely private: private companies own and operate 99 percent of family…
The Post-9/11 GI Bill is the largest of the VA's education programs, and its dollar limits move every year: for the 2025-2026 academic year, effective August 1, 2025, VA raised the maximum tuition and fee amounts payable, per a Federal Register notice published July 3, 2025. The governing rules…
The Department of Veterans Affairs is requesting $488.2 billion for fiscal 2027, a 7.7 percent increase above the 2026 enacted level, per the department's April 2026 Budget in Brief. Of that, $337.6 billion is mandatory benefit funding, per VA's budget office — the accounts behind disability…