Course Catalog / BMU 106 / Glossary
Glossary
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- COE
- Certificate of Eligibility. It shows a lender you qualify for a VA backed loan based on your service.
- DD214
- Your discharge paper. It shows your service dates and the type of discharge.
- disability rating
- A percent that shows how much a condition affects your health and ability to function.
- eligibility
- Whether you meet the rules to get a benefit.
- enroll
- Sign up so you can get care.
- entitlement
- How many months of a benefit you can use.
- PACT Act
- A 2022 law that expanded care and benefits for toxic exposure.
- Post 9/11 GI Bill
- Also called Chapter 33. Helps pay for school or training for people who served after September 10, 2001.
- presumptive condition
- A condition VA assumes was caused by service, so you do not have to prove the link.
- priority group
- VA places enrolled Veterans in groups. A higher group makes you more likely to get benefits.
- service connected
- An illness or injury caused, or made worse, by your active military service.
- VALife
- Veterans Affairs Life Insurance, for Veterans with a service connected rating.
- Veteran
- A person who served in the active military, naval, or air service. Each VA program has its own service rules.
- VGLI
- Veterans' Group Life Insurance. Lets you keep coverage after you leave service.
- VR&E
- Veteran Readiness and Employment, also called Chapter 31.