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Understanding your benefits, navigating health care, and choosing what is best for you are sometimes difficult tasks to manage. We can help connect with benefits, services, and programs that support your transition from the military.

Let us help you with:

• Enrolling in VA health care and connecting with primary care
• Finding where to file a disability claim and the necessary steps to take
• Connecting with a Veteran Service Officer in your city or town and the local Veterans Service Organizations

Understanding your benefits, navigating health care, and choosing what is best for you are sometimes difficult tasks to manage. We can help connect you with benefits, services, and programs that support you.

Let us help you with these tasks:

• Enrolling in VA health care and connecting you with primary care
• Finding where to file a disability claim and the necessary steps to take
• Using your VA education benefits
• Finding how to apply for and use your VA home loan
• Accessing VA burial and survivor benefits

We can help you make direct connection with a Veterans Service Officer in your city or town and the local Veterans Service Organizations.

Veterans Service Officers from Michigan Disabled American Veterans and American Legion are available at the Saginaw Vet Center on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Call us at 989-321-4650 for scheduling and availability.

We understand that searching through the vast variety of Veteran resources can be challenging. Let us help you navigate these resources. We can refer, connect, and explain how to gather information on your VA benefits.

Here are some resources to help you learn more about VA benefits and local Veteran agencies:

• Access your VA medical benefits and enroll in VA health care
• Learn more about your VA benefits 
• Learn more about your State Department of Veterans Affairs
• Learn more about educational opportunities
• Learn more about your Post-9/11 GI Bill
• Learn more about the VA Caregiver Support Program
• Learn more about the Women Veterans Call Center

We can help you connect with:

• Applying for VA health care
• Reviewing VA benefits
• Employment and training opportunities
• Vocational rehab 
• Where to file a disability claim and the necessary steps to take
• Using your VA education benefits
• How to apply for and use your VA home loan
• Accessing VA burial and survivor benefits
• Your local Veteran Service Officer for benefits

We understand that searching for resources can be challenging. Let us help you navigate through and connect with:

• How to activate VA medical benefits and enroll in care
• Where to file disability claims and other VA related forms
• How to make the most of your VA education benefits
• How to use your VA home loan
• How to access VA burial benefits

We can also assist in connecting you with a local Veteran Service Officer (VSO). Call us at 877-927-8387 to find out more information. 

We understand that the transition from military to civilian life can be a challenge. We offer a variety of ways to assist you in that process and can help you navigate these tasks:

• How to get VA medical benefits and register for care
• Where to go to file claims and other forms
• Understanding your VA education benefits
• Help with housing and home loans
• Learning about and getting connected to VA burial benefits
• Connecting with local county Veterans Service Officers for local benefits and services

Find your local county Veterans Service Officer

We make it our mission to know and grow relationships with organizations and agencies in service to our area Veterans and services members. Stop in and chat and we'll connect you to the right place.

Folks we commonly partner with include:

• VA Medical Centers
• Iowa County Veteran Service Offices
• Local housing programs
• Support Siouxland Soldiers
• Family Alliance for Veterans of America (FAVA)
• The Community Action Agency
• Center for Siouxland 

We can connect you with various Veteran and service member resources in the community, such as these:

• VA benefits and claim information
• VA medical care
• Education and employment benefits and assistance
• Housing assistance

Please contact us for additional information at 316-265-0889 for VA or community referrals. We can connect you to resources to help you apply and manage your VA benefits and services, including:

• Health care
• Disability
• Pension
• Service member benefits
• Family member benefits
• Careers and employment
• Housing assistance
• Life insurance
• Education and training
• Records
• Burials and memorials

Additional community services we can connect you with are: 

• Kansas Department on Aging
• Kansas Workforce Center

We work closely with the agencies listed below to connect you to services and information. Always feel free to call us if you need assistance reaching an agency.

• Sioux Falls VA Health Care System
  
  Call 605-336-3230. 
• State Veterans Cemetery (Sioux Falls)
  
  Call 605-277-8094. 
• SD Department of Veterans Affairs
  
  Call 605-333-6869. 
• Minnehaha County Veterans Service Officer
  
  Call 605-367-4201.
• Lincoln County Veterans Service Officer
  
  Call 605-764-5571.
• SD Air National Guard (Military IDs)
  
  Call 605-988-5845.
• SD Army National Guard (Military IDs)
  
  Call 605-357-2900.
• VOA Veterans Outreach Center
  
  Call 605-274-1540.
• Berakhah House
  
  Call 605-332-4017.
• VFW
  
  Call 605-338-0869.
• American Legion
  
  Call 605-336-3470.
• Paralyzed Veterans of America
  
  Call 605-336-0494.
• Big Paws Canine Service Dog Training
  
  Call 605-274-0409.
• The Cornerstone Rescue Mission (housing assistance)
  
  Call 605-390-6380.
• Midwest Honor Flight
  
  Call 605-215-1319.