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  • Access benefits

    • Access benefits

    • Access your benefits through MyService

      • Access your benefits through MyService

      • MyService - Terms of use
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    • Claims and compensation for illness or injury

      • Claims and compensation for illness or injury

      • Making a claim for a service-related condition
      • What to expect after you have submitted a compensation claim
      • Claim processing times
      • Our commitment to you
      • What to know about multiple claims
      • Free services that may help you
      • Get treatment while you wait on a claim (PAMT)
      • Claims if you were injured after 30 June 2004
      • Claims if you were injured before 1 July 2004
      • Needs assessment
      • Household services
      • Attendant care
      • Claims for reservists
      • Overview of benefits and services you may receive
      • Claims for certain submarine special operations
      • Service covered under the VEA
      • Claims for cadets and their officers and instructors
      • When and how to take legal action for compensation
      • Laws that cover claims
    • Find forms
    • Pensions and payments

      • Pensions and payments

      • Eligibility for benefits and payments
      • Service Pension overview
      • Crisis payment
      • Support when you cannot work
      • Benefits for prisoners of war and their dependants
      • Support for members of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force and people who served in Japan
      • Support for civilians and participants in the British nuclear tests
      • Financial help if you are blind
      • What changes your payments
      • Get help to buy property or find accommodation
      • Lump sum advance
      • Pension Bonus Scheme
      • Qualifying service
      • Allowances
      • Supplements
      • Proof of Identity
      • Ready reckoners
    • Payment rates

      • Payment rates

      • Summary of pension rates, limits and allowances
      • Income Support Payment rates
      • Compensation payment rates
    • Lodge an appeal

      • Lodge an appeal

      • Help to understand a decision
      • About the Veterans’ Review Board (VRB)
      • Administrative Review Tribunal
      • Request a review for income support decisions
      • Review of a MEPI decision
      • Appeal a transport decision
      • Appeal an allowance decision
      • Rehabilitation Appliances Program decisions
      • Compensation under VEA and MRCA pathway
      • Liability and compensation under the DRCA pathway
      • Legislation for reviews and appeals
    • Veteran Card

      • Veteran Card

      • Veteran Gold Card
      • Veteran White Card
      • Veteran Orange Card
      • Frequently asked questions: Veteran Card in myGov app
      • Commonwealth Seniors Health Card
      • Pensioner Concession Card
      • Video transcript - How to add your Veteran Card to the myGov wallet
  • What we help with

    • What we help with

    • Get urgent support

      • Get urgent support

      • Crisis contacts
      • Crisis payment
      • Crisis accommodation
      • Homelessness Support
      • Family & domestic violence help
      • Self harm & Intervention
      • Acute Support Package
    • Health support

      • Health support

      • Health services for the veteran community
      • General practitioner and medical specialist services
      • Hospital services
      • Allied health
      • Dental services
      • Hearing services
      • Diabetes services
      • Help for alcohol and drug problems
      • Veterans’ Health Check
      • Coordinated Veterans’ Care (CVC) Program — Information for veterans
      • Finding a health provider
      • MyMedicare for DVA Patients
      • Injury or health treatments
      • Veteran Card
      • Travel for treatment
      • Help to cover healthcare costs
      • Permanent Telehealth information for clients
    • Your mental wellbeing

      • Your mental wellbeing

      • Crisis contacts
      • Managing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
      • Non-Liability Health Care (mental health) for veterans
      • Mental health support services
      • Our Psychiatric Assistance Dog Program
      • Emerging and Adjunct Treatments for Common Mental Health Conditions Affecting Veterans: A Rapid Evidence Assessment
      • Veterans’ Chaplaincy Pilot Program
    • Education and employment

      • Education and employment

      • Education Entry Payment
      • Veterans’ Vocational Rehabilitation Scheme (VVRS)
      • Support for students
      • Veteran Employment Program
    • Leaving the ADF and moving into civilian life

      • Leaving the ADF and moving into civilian life

      • Transition to civilian life
      • Sort your finances
      • Veterans' Chaplaincy Pilot Program
      • Veteran Support Office
    • Advocacy, representation & advice

      • Advocacy, representation & advice

      • What is a representative?
      • What is an advocate?
      • What is consent?
      • What is an ex-service organisation?
      • What to consider if you're looking for help?
      • Access to support services
      • Veteran Support Office
      • Support for advocates & ex-service organisations
      • Veterans’ and Families’ Hubs
    • Care at home and aged care services

      • Care at home and aged care services

      • Help to pay for home or aged care
      • Residential aged care
      • Services to help you at home
      • Aged care resources
      • Share your accessing aged care experience
      • Aged care support and services
      • Home care packages and other non-DVA aged care
    • Social support

      • Social support

      • Veterans' Health Week
      • Wellbeing and Support Program (WASP)
      • Run a Cooking for One or Two program
      • Veterans' and Families' Hubs
      • About Men’s Health Peer Education
      • DVA rehabilitation
      • The Community Support Team
      • Heart Health Program
      • Help for alcohol and drug problems
    • Vehicle costs and benefits

      • Vehicle costs and benefits

      • Motor Vehicle Compensation Scheme
      • Support of cars or car parts GST-free
      • Vehicle Assistance Scheme
      • Motorcycle GST rebate scheme
      • Travel for treatment
    • Housing and home life

      • Housing and home life

      • Homelessness support
      • Housing and accommodation
      • Defence Service Homes loans
      • Defence Service Homes Insurance Scheme
      • Loans and insurance
      • Rent assistance
    • Discounts and concessions
    • Support for Indigenous veterans

      • Support for Indigenous veterans

      • Help for you and your family
    • Commonwealth and other allied veterans
    • Accessing Information

      • Accessing Information

      • Freedom of Information
    • Scams and fraud

      • Scams and fraud

      • Avoiding and reporting a suspected scams
      • Understanding and reporting fraud
  • Recognition and Commemoration

    • Recognition and Commemoration

    • Australian Defence Veterans' Covenant
    • Apply for a certificate of appreciation
    • Records and military history

      • Records and military history

      • Education resources
      • Just Ask – Their story is your story
      • Military history and publications
      • About nominal rolls
      • Search for a war grave
      • Search for War Dead
    • Education resources

      • Education resources

      • Anzac Portal
      • Protecting the word ‘Anzac’
      • Anzac Portal commemorates veterans and shares our military history
      • Interpretive Centres and Education
    • Commemoration services

      • Commemoration services

      • Calendar
      • Search for a commemoration
      • How can veterans get involved in commemorative services?
      • Commemorative services in Australia
      • Overseas Commemorative Services
    • War cemeteries and Gardens of remembrance

      • War cemeteries and Gardens of remembrance

      • War Cemeteries in Australia
      • Gardens of Remembrance
      • Visiting a War Cemetery or Garden of Remembrance
    • Memorials

      • Memorials

      • Memorials in Africa and the Middle East
      • Memorials in Asia Pacific
      • Memorials in Europe
      • Memorials in North America
      • Memorials to the missing
      • Military memorials of national significance
      • Search overseas memorials
      • War memorials
    • Office of Australian War Graves

      • Office of Australian War Graves

      • About the Office of Australian War Graves
      • Office of Australian War Graves 50th Anniversary Commemorative Rose – ‘In Perpetuity’
      • Contact the Office of Australian War Graves
      • Marking (First World War) Private Graves Grants Program
      • Current projects and announcements
      • Care for war graves and memorials
      • Using a service badge on a private memorial
      • Principles of official commemoration
      • Commemorate our war dead
      • Search for an Official Commemorations
  • Family and dependants

    • Family and dependants

    • Financial programs and services

      • Financial programs and services

      • Income Support for partners
      • Pension for orphans and war widow(er)s
      • Comparison of benefits for dependants
      • Compensation for dependants under the MRCA
      • Bereavement payments
    • Acute Support Package
    • Support for children of Vietnam veterans
    • Support for students

      • Support for students

      • Education schemes
      • Student start-up scholarship and relocation scholarship
      • Income Support Bonus
      • Long Tan Bursary
    • Family and domestic violence help
    • Veterans’ and Families’ Hubs
  • Providers

    • Providers

    • Clinical psychologists and psychologists
    • Provider news
    • Fees & claims

      • Fees & claims

      • Fees, forms & guidelines for GPs
      • Fee schedules for GPs and specialists
      • Fee notes for GPs and specialists
      • Incentive payments for General Practitioners
      • Fees & guidelines for allied health providers
      • Dental and allied health fee schedules
      • Historical software vendor files
      • Provider claims
      • Approvals for providers
      • Compliance for providers
    • Neuropsychologists
    • Forms for providers

      • Forms for providers

      • Provider claims
      • Medical assessment form tips
      • Provider forms
    • Occupational therapists
    • Dental service providers
    • Information for GPs & other primary care providers

      • Information for GPs & other primary care providers

      • Specific veteran services GPs can provide
      • Treatment cycle information for GPs
      • Notes for GPs
      • Mental health programs overview
      • Cancer & pulmonary TB care
      • Home care & transport services
      • Medicines & hearing devices
      • Medicines
      • Hospital admission and discharge
      • Diabetes information & services
      • Psychosocial supports
      • Coordinated Veterans’ Care (CVC) Program
      • Nurses & nurse practitioners
    • Allied Health
    • Physiotherapists
    • For transport providers
    • Orthotists
    • Podiatrists
    • Community nursing services and providers

      • Community nursing services and providers

      • Community nursing services – general information
      • Information for DVA approved Community Nursing providers
      • How to become a DVA approved community nursing provider
      • Claiming for community nursing services
      • Exceptional Cases
      • Sustainability Payments for Community Nursing and Veterans’ Home Care providers
      • Community Nursing Newsletters
      • Panel of community nursing providers
      • Training and resources for community nursing providers
    • Exercise physiologists

      • Exercise physiologists

      • Exercise physiologists FAQ
    • Osteopaths
    • Programs & services information for providers

      • Programs & services information for providers

      • Veterans' home care
      • Coordinated Veterans’ Care
      • Veterans' health check for providers
      • Hearing service information for providers
      • Rehabilitation program for providers
      • RAP overview
      • Diabetes information & services
      • Stoma products
      • Medical grade footwear
      • Mental health programs overview
      • Health Providers' Partnership Forum
      • Permanent telehealth information for providers
      • Aged care resources
      • Psychosocial supports
      • Convalescent care information for providers
      • Coordinated Veterans' Care (CVC) Program White Card Holder Information
      • Coordinated Veterans’ Care (CVC) Frequently Asked Questions
      • Stoma product information for providers
      • Training and Resources for Coordinated Veterans’ Care (CVC) Providers
    • Patient care

      • Patient care

      • Treating a veteran in crisis
      • Travel for treatment bookings - Information for health providers
      • Veteran Cards for providers
      • Supporting veterans in transition
      • About us & our clients
      • Quick guides and tools
    • Speech pathologists
    • Social workers
    • Veteran Cards, prior approval and referrals

      • Veteran Cards, prior approval and referrals

      • Referrals
    • Diabetes educators
    • Training and research for providers

      • Training and research for providers

      • Training
      • Non-liability health care training
      • Research
    • Become a DVA health care provider
    • Optical dispensers
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  • About us

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    • Who we are

      • Who we are

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      • Our structure
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    • What we do

      • What we do

      • Australia’s Veteran Support System at a Glance
      • Overview of DVA benefits and services
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    • Grants and bursaries

      • Grants and bursaries

      • Overview of our Grants Programs
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    • Inquiries and reviews

      • Inquiries and reviews

      • Our work in response to the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide
      • Veterans' Legislation Reform
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    • Corporate governance

      • Corporate governance

      • Secretary’s gifts and benefits register
      • Policies & procedures
      • Artificial Intelligence (AI) Transparency Statement
    • Publications

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      • Strategies and plans
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    • Strategies, frameworks and plans

      • Strategies, frameworks and plans

      • What guides us in our workplace
      • What guides our provision of services
      • Regulator Performance Framework
      • Word Anzac Regulator Framework
    • For suppliers and vendors

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    • Privacy and legal resources

      • Privacy and legal resources

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      • How your VEA, DRCA and MRCA payments are protected
      • Confidentiality of Social Security (Centrelink) pension information
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    • Engagement and consultation

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      • Lived Experience Framework
      • How we consult the ex-service community
      • Consultation with the Health Sector
      • State and territory forums
      • Relationship with Defence
      • Public Interest Disclosure Scheme
      • Consultation arrangements
      • Submissions Portal for National Peak Body
      • Community consultation on a new agency for veteran wellbeing
    • Careers

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