Free turn-by-turn directions through the VA process.
11 · 11 · 202611:11 a.m. Eastern
10:11 a.m. Central
The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.
Need help before then? Find a free, accredited Veterans Service Organization representative on VA.gov. (opens in a new tab)
As seen in 18 newspapers across 9 states, including The Southern Illinoisan, the Effingham Daily News and the Greensburg Daily News.
One question. This many answers.
That is what a Veteran gets for asking where to start. Veteran Benefits GPS™ starts with the answer: the official page for exactly where you are.
Google Search, November 5, 2026, for the query shown. The count moves every day.
Ten territories. One journey.
A free navigation guide for Veterans and their families.
Helping a Veteran? On November 11, pick “Helping someone” first.
How the map works
There are ten benefit territories on one journey map. Every stop points to an official VA.gov page or your state or territory’s own government site. It gives the form number where a form applies. It also points to free help from an accredited Veterans Service Organization (VSO) representative.
What this is, and what it is not.
A free navigation guide. It shows you where you are in the process and points to the official starting place for each step.
Not the VA. This tool doesn’t decide anything about your situation; it only points.
No login required. No name, no file number, no rating, ever. Nothing a Veteran enters is sold, shared, or shown to a sponsor.
Official pages and free help. Every stop starts at an official VA.gov link or your state or territory’s own government site, with free help from an accredited VSO representative along the way.
Three steps to your starting point.
Answer two or three questions
Where you are in your journey. Pick the answer that fits. No forms, no name, no file number.
Get your starting point
The official VA.gov page for your situation. The form number, where a form applies. Free help from an accredited VSO representative.
Walk the map
Ten territories, step by step, with your progress kept on your own device. Come back anytime without starting over.
What is going on, plainly.
The tool works.
Ten territories, one journey map, on a phone with nothing to install. Every word is written ahead of time, and nothing goes live without my approval. No artificial intelligence (AI) in the tool.
Standing it up in public.
Counsel reviewed the launch documents. Sponsors and supporters are invited aboard this fall.
Public launch, Veterans Day.
The day the country is already looking at Veterans is the day this opens to them.
How this stays free for every Veteran.
Veteran Benefits GPS LLC is a for-profit Illinois company, and no Veteran ever pays. Four things keep the Veteran’s side free.
One sponsor per industry, per place, at each tier. A sponsor never sees, shapes, or touches what a Veteran reads. A sponsorship is advertising purchased from Veteran Benefits GPS LLC, a for-profit business. Sponsors do not endorse the tool’s content and the tool does not endorse their products.
See the four tiersA one-time or monthly contribution from anyone it helped. It buys nothing inside the tool, because nothing is for sale inside it. Veteran Benefits GPS™ is a for-profit business. Contributions support this tool and are not tax deductible.
Give one time or monthlyRegional Sponsor and above may be paid in services I would otherwise buy: legal review, design, printing. Same placements, same agreement, fair market value counted on both sides.
Registered with the System for Award Management (SAM.gov) and with Illinois through the Grant Accountability and Transparency Act (GATA). Any award I receive will be posted beside every sponsor.