About VetRecon

What it is

VetRecon helps veterans with a VA disability rating find the benefits they may be entitled to — with special attention to the ones that are commonly missed. You answer a few questions about your rating, state, dependents, and status, and VetRecon returns a personalized, categorized list with plain-language descriptions, notes on why each benefit is often overlooked, and direct links to apply.

It covers federal benefits and state benefits, and it exists because too many veterans never learn about entitlements they've already earned — things like health coverage for their dependents, education assistance, tax exemptions, and fee waivers that no one proactively tells them about.

Who it's for

Any veteran with a service-connected disability rating (including 0%), and the family members who help them navigate their benefits. If you're preparing for an appointment with a Veterans Service Officer, the results page is designed to print or save as a PDF so you can bring your list with you.

Run entirely by volunteers

VetRecon is a 100% volunteer effort. No one is paid — not a cent. It exists only because people donate their own time, energy, and expertise for free, on nights and weekends, because they believe no veteran should have to hire someone or stumble across a forum thread to learn about benefits they already earned.

Every entry in the database is hours of unpaid work: reading statutes and official agency pages, untangling who actually qualifies, and rewriting it all in plain language. There's no company behind this, no ads, no data being sold, and no one profiting from it. It's a labor of love, kept going by volunteers who care about getting it right.

Being all-volunteer also means we're small, and we can't do everything at once. If VetRecon has helped you and you'd like to give back — expertise, a few hours, or just flagging something that looks off — we would genuinely love the help. This only grows because people pitch in.

What it will never do

• Never see your answers. Everything runs in your browser. There's no account, no server that receives your entry, and no tracking that collects personal information.
• Never guess with AI. Matching is a deterministic rules engine, not a language model, so it can't invent a benefit that doesn't exist. See the methodology for how it works.
• Never ship an unsourced claim. Every benefit links to an authoritative official source you can check yourself, and shows when that source was last reviewed.

Not affiliated with the VA

VetRecon is an independent, informational project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs or any government agency. It is a starting point to help you find and understand benefits — not an official eligibility determination, and not legal advice.

Always double-check — and help us keep it accurate

We're a small group of volunteers, benefit rules change constantly, and we can't independently confirm every detail for every state. Treat VetRecon as a carefully-researched starting point, not the final word: before you count on a benefit, confirm the current details with the VA, your state veterans affairs office, or a Veterans Service Officer. If you spot something that looks wrong or out of date, please tell us so we can fix it against the source.