Veteran Services

Mission Statement/About Us:

The Jackson County Veteran Services Office staff helps area veterans and their family members obtain Federal Veterans Administration benefits.

External Links:

VA Extends Presumption of Service-Connection-Jan. 2025

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs announced that it is making acute and chronic leukemias, multiple myelomas, myelodysplastic syndromes, myelofibrosis, urinary bladder, ureter, and related genitourinary cancers presumptive for service-connection for:

Post-9/11 Veterans: Veterans who served in Afghanistan, Iraq, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, or Uzbekistan and the airspace above these locations during the Gulf War on or after Sept. 11, 2001. This includes Veterans who served at the Karshi-Khanabad (K2) base in Uzbekistan after Sept. 11, 2001.
Gulf War Veterans: Veterans who served in Somalia or the Southwest Asia theater of operations (which includes Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, the neutral zone between Iraq and Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, the Gulf of Aden, the Gulf of Oman, the Persian Gulf, the Arabian Sea, the Red Sea, and the airspace above these locations) during the Persian Gulf War on or after Aug. 2, 1990.

VA Extends Presumption of Service-Connection

June 2024 – The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is including three new cancer types in the list of presumed service-connected disabilities due to military environmental exposure under the PACT Act.

Through a sub-regulatory policy letter published to the Federal Register, the following three cancer types have been included in the list of presumptive diseases:

Male breast cancer.
Urethral cancer.
Cancer of the paraurethral glands.

New Toxic Hazards Eligibility

“Beginning today, we’re making millions of Veterans eligible for VA health care years earlier than called for by the PACT Act,” said VA Under Secretary for Health Dr. Shereef Elnahal. “With this expansion, VA can care for all Veterans who served in the Vietnam War, the Gulf War, Iraq, Afghanistan, the Global War on Terror or any other combat zone after 9/11. We can also care for Veterans who never deployed but were exposed to toxins or hazards while training or on active duty here at home while working with chemicals, pesticides, lead, asbestos, certain paints, nuclear weapons, x-rays and more. We want to bring all of these Veterans to VA for the care they’ve earned and deserve.”

eBenefits Customer Support

1-800-983-0937

VA Education and Training Benefits

https://www.va.gov/education/

National Cemetery Administration

https://www.cem.va.gov/cem/index.asp

Tallahassee National Cemetery

https://www.cem.va.gov/cems/nchp/tallahassee.asp

Headstones, Markers, and Medallions

https://www.cem.va.gov/hmm/

Life Insurance

https://www.benefits.va.gov/insurance/

Code of Federal Regulations Title 38 Pensions, Bonuses, and Veteran’s Relief

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2011-title38-vol1/pdf/CFR-2011-title38-vol1.pdf

Contact Information:

Jackson County Veterans Services
Historic Russ House 4318 Lafayette Street
Marianna, Florida 32446

Phone: (850) 718-0003
Fax: (850) 482-9987

Mission Statement/About Us:

External Links:

VA Extends Presumption of Service-Connection-Jan. 2025

VA Extends Presumption of Service-Connection

New Toxic Hazards Eligibility

Veterans Administration

PACT Act – Vietnam / Gulf War Era / Post-9/11

Camp Lejeune Contaminated Drinking Water

Marianna VA Community-Based Outpatient Clinic

Sergeant Ernest I. “Boots” Thomas VA Clinic – Tallahassee, Florida

Family Caregivers Program

Patient Advocates – North Florida South Georgia VA Health Care System

State Veterans Nursing Homes

White House VA Hotline

VA Claim/Appeal Inquiries

VA Claims Intake Center

Board of Veterans’ Appeals

Request Pertaining to Military Records

VA Home Loans

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