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Look up your military job, explore combined-rating math, or find a diagnostic code.
Military Job Service Fingerprint
Enter your MOS, AFSC, or Navy rating. Get an instant, private snapshot of duty factors, evidence questions, and claim lanes worth reviewing next.
Open toolVA Math Calculator
Estimate a combined rating using the Combined Ratings Table in 38 CFR § 4.25. This is educational math, not a VA decision.
Open toolDC Code Lookup
Search all 741 live catalog entries, with rating-schedule context and links to the regulation.
Open toolPresumptive Finder
Answer questions about when and where you served. See presumptive lists on this site that may be worth reviewing. Not a VA decision.
Open toolIncluded with the Founding Pass
Use these tools alongside your saved packet. Estimates and research help you prepare questions; they do not determine benefits or submit a claim.
Understand ratings and pay
Compare numbers you enter with rating and compensation tables.
Compensation Table Lookup
Compare entered ratings and dependents with the current published compensation tables. Results are estimates, not eligibility or payment decisions.
Open toolBack-Pay Estimator
Explore possible date and payment scenarios using information you enter. Actual effective dates and retroactive pay are determined by VA.
Open toolWhat-If Simulator
Stack entered ratings and a hypothetical new number. Combined-rating math only. Not a VA decision.
Open toolCRSC / CRDP Calculator
Educational offset math for retirees using numbers you enter. Not a payment decision.
Open toolPrepare questions for a representative
TDIU and SMC questions from the regulation. Not an eligibility decision.
TDIU questions guide
Walk through educational questions based on 38 CFR § 4.16 and organize points to review with a VA-accredited representative.
Open toolSMC questions guide
Review educational questions based on 38 CFR § 3.350. The tool does not determine eligibility.
Open toolOrganize evidence and statements
Prepare records, describe your experiences, and get ready for your exam.
Evidence Checklist Generator
Build a list of records to look for at home. Take it to a VSO. This is not a filing.
Open toolStatements: nexus / medical-opinion link
How VA describes a link to service, in official wording. Not a letter to sign.
Open toolVA Form 21-10210 buddy / lay builder
Structured prompts for a witness. Copy an editable draft onto the official form. Not a completed filing or a medical opinion.
Open toolVA Form 21-4138 personal statement builder
Structured prompts for your own statement in support. Copy an editable draft onto the official form. Not a completed filing.
Open toolHLR / Supplemental / Board — what to organize
Official VA.gov wording for the three decision-review lanes and a short organize list. Not a predicted review result.
Open toolC&P Exam Prep (Founding Pass)
A printable list of what to bring and questions to ask. Educational only.
Open toolSecondary Claims Flow Builder
Research leads from conditions already on the sheet. Not automatic claims.
Open toolLay / Buddy Statement Generator
You provide every fact. The tool only organizes it for a VSO conversation.
Open toolExplore condition research
Find topics to discuss with a VA-accredited representative.
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Guides, VA Math, and the diagnostic-code lookup remain free. The Pass is the packet: saved sheet, gaps list, and export.