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Nine Benefits Almost Nobody Claims

Money and access you have already earned — VR&E business funding, a VA loan funding fee refund, one-time free dental, a no-health-questions life insurance window, and more — with the exact deadlines that quietly end them.

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Who This Is For

Veterans and separating service members who assume they already know the benefits list. This guide skips the ten things every article repeats and covers nine that are real, currently operating, and routinely missed — several of them because they carry a hard deadline nobody mentions, or sit in a different agency from where people think to look. Especially useful if you are separating soon: two of the deadlines inside cannot be recovered once missed.

What's Inside

  • VR&E Chapter 31 self-employment funding — VA can fund your business, not just your schooling
  • The VA home loan funding fee refund tied to a retroactive disability rating
  • Why an assumed VA loan can trap your entitlement — and how to protect it
  • The 180-day window for one free course of Class II VA dental care
  • The 240-day and 485-day SGLI-to-VGLI deadlines, plus VALife
  • The 30% Disabled Veteran hiring authority for direct federal appointment
  • The annual VA clothing allowance and its August 1 filing date
  • Commissary, exchange, and MWR access at any service-connected rating
  • Vet Center counseling with no rating, no enrollment, and no VA record
  • A one-page deadline summary so nothing above slips past you

The Deadlines, In One Place

  • 180 days from discharge — Class II dental. Permanently lost after.
  • 240 days from separation — VGLI with no health questions. Health proof required after.
  • 485 days from separation — VGLI closes for good.
  • August 1 each year — the cutoff to file for that year's clothing allowance.
  • The other five items have no deadline — which is exactly why they get put off for years.
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