Tools for Veterans and Families
Practical tools for understanding toxic exposure and the VA benefits that follow. Every tool runs entirely in your browser: nothing you enter is sent to us, stored, or shared.
Estimate your benefits
VA Disability Calculator
Combine multiple ratings the way the VA does, including the bilateral factor, and estimate your monthly compensation at current rates.
Open toolSurvivor Benefits (DIC)
Estimate Dependency and Indemnity Compensation for surviving spouses, children, and parents, and see who qualifies.
Open toolCheck your exposure
Contaminated Bases Map
An interactive map of profiled U.S. military installations with documented contamination, browsable by state.
Open toolWere You Exposed?
Select where you served to see the documented contaminants at your installation and the screenings, registries, and benefits to consider.
Open toolExposure by Military Job
Job by job: the toxic exposures each military occupation involved, the linked health conditions, and how job-based exposure supports a claim.
Open toolNavigate a claim
PACT Act Eligibility Checker
Select where and when you served to see which VA presumptive exposure frameworks may apply to you.
Open toolAppeals Helper
If a claim was denied, find which option fits: a Supplemental Claim, Higher-Level Review, or Board Appeal, with the deadline to act.
Open toolTDIU Checker
Check whether you may meet the thresholds for Total Disability based on Individual Unemployability, which can pay at the 100 percent rate.
Open toolReference
Presumptive Conditions
A searchable list of the conditions the VA presumes are connected to toxic exposure, including the PACT Act additions.
Open toolCancers Linked to Service
Cancer by cancer: the military exposures each is linked to, its VA presumptive status, how the VA rates it, and screening guidance.
Open toolCancer Rating Lookup
Look up how the VA rates a specific cancer for disability compensation, by 38 CFR diagnostic code.
Open toolVA Policy Changes
A dated, sourced log of changes to presumptive conditions, rating rules, and filing deadlines for toxic exposure claims.
Open toolGlossary
Plain-language definitions of the chemical, environmental, and VA benefits terms used across this site.
Open toolThis page is for informational purposes only and is not medical or legal advice. Consult a qualified professional about your health or benefits.