Health

Veterans Affairs Life Insurance (VALife) provides low-cost coverage to veterans with service-connected disabilities. Veterans can get up to $40,000 in whole life insurance coverage and coverage starts 2 years after you apply.

Lutheran Family Services of Nebraska offers Veterans Services programs, which provide confidential, individualized counseling services for active military personnel, veterans and their loved ones regardless of ability to pay.

NAMI Homefront is a free, six-session class for family, friends, and significant others of Military Service Members and Veterans. Topics covered include mental health, communication, handling crises, treatment, and recovery.

VA disability compensation pay offers a monthly tax-free payment to veterans who get sick or injured while serving in the military and to veterans whose service made an existing condition worse

Our guide to Disability Claims and Appeals provides an overview of USVA compensation and pension benefits and guidance on claims and the appeal process.

Vet Centers are community-based counseling centers that provide a wide range of social and psychological services, including professional readjustment counseling to eligible Veterans, active duty service members, including National Guard and Reserve components, and their families.

Our four state veteran’s homes are part of the Nebraska Hospice-Veteran Partnership and offer hospice/palliative care for members facing end of life.

The VA Nebraska-Western Iowa Health Care System provides healthcare services to veterans in Nebraska, Western Iowa, and portions of Kansas and Missouri.

TRICARE (formerly CHAMPUS) is a health care program of the United States Department of Defense Military Health System. It provides civilian health benefits for US Armed Forces military personnel, military retirees, and their dependents, including some members of the Reserve Component.

VGLI provides for the conversion of service members’ group life insurance coverage to a renewable term policy of insurance protection after a service member’s separation from service.