Find free and accredited claim help
find_claim_helpUse this when a veteran asks who can help with a VA disability claim, or describes a crisis. VeteranHQ does not prepare or file claims or forms, and only VA decides a claim. need crisis puts the full Veterans Crisis Line first and alone returns crisis content; urgent true tops routeNow with the first action, crisis routing unchanged. Results list accredited Veterans Service Organizations (free), attorneys and claims agents (fees only for representation provided after VA’s notice of an initial decision, 38 CFR 14.636(c), 38 U.S.C. 5904(c)(1)), VA’s accreditation search and representative finder, VA phone numbers, documents to bring, form links, and the veterans agency for a two-letter state code (none on file: stateAgency null, coverage.stateResolved false). It names no individual, firm or private directory and reads no account data. askedFor (the veteran’s words) does not change or withhold the routing: a request to act as the veteran’s attorney, agent or representative before VA, to supply words for a veteran or a clinician to use (statements or nexus letters, new, rewritten, polished, tightened or cleaned up), to choose a decision review lane for the veteran, or to prepare or file a claim returns status ok, the same findings and a boundary. Its kind names the primary boundary crossed; kinds lists every boundary the request crossed, in the fixed precedence representation_request, then words_for_testimony, then review_lane_choice, then preparation_request. Its opening, rule and route state, one sentence per kind in kinds, what VeteranHQ does not do, the accreditation and fee rules and where the work belongs, and lead message after any crisis line. sources holds each reference once by stable id (citation, VA page or form slug, or product-boundary, no url), cited by sourceIds; a line’s passage is line.quote or its entry’s quote; state agency pages stay on the line.
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| need | Yes | What the veteran is trying to do. Use general when the veteran has not said, and crisis when they describe a mental health emergency. | |
| state | No | Two-letter US state or territory code, for example CA, TX or PR. Adds that state veterans agency to the answer. Omit it when the veteran has not said where they live. | |
| urgent | No | True when the request is time sensitive, for example a letter, an exam notice or a date the veteran is worried about. It puts their first action at the top of the answer. It does NOT change the crisis routing: use need crisis when the veteran describes a mental health emergency. | |
| askedFor | No | What the veteran asked for, in their own words, when they are available. It changes nothing about the routing and does not withhold it. A request that this tool act as the veteran's representative, attorney or agent before VA, to prepare or file a claim, to choose a decision review lane for the veteran, or to supply words for a veteran or a clinician to use returns the same answer with a boundary object added, naming what VeteranHQ does not do, the accreditation and fee rules and where the work belongs; its kinds array lists every one of those classes the request crossed, in the precedence representation_request, words_for_testimony, review_lane_choice, preparation_request, and kind is the first of them. Ordinary requests for help are answered with no boundary object. |