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Veterans Benefits Administration jobs

Help Veterans and families connect with the benefits and services they’ve earned with a career at the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA).

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Become an advocate for our Veterans and have a direct, positive impact on their lives and their families by:

  • Assisting service members as they transition out of military service
  • Processing claims for benefits
  • Helping Veterans earn a degree or buy a new home

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Play a vital role in ensuring that Veterans receive the benefits they deserve.

VBA gives you limitless room to grow and excel in your career while offering opportunities that will push your talent to exciting new heights.

Learn more about being a Veterans Service Representative (VSR)

As a VSR, you explain benefit programs and entitlement criteria, conduct interviews, identify issues, gather relevant evidence, adjudicate claims, and input data to generate award and notification letters to Veterans, describing decisions and the reasons for them. The entry level is GS-7 with promotion potential to the GS-9/10.

Watch Helping Heroes: A Day in the Life of a Veterans Service Representative to learn about what it’s like to work as a VSR.


Learn more about being a Rating Veterans Service Representative (RVSR)

An RVSR works in the Veterans Service Center (VSC), Special Missions, or Pension Management Center. Analyze claims, apply VA’s Schedule for Rating Disabilities (Rating Schedule), and prepare rating decisions, informing VSRs and claimants of the decisions and reasons for them. The entry level is GS-9 with promotion potential to the GS-10/11/12.

Watch Helping Heroes: A Day in the Life of a Rating Veterans Service Representative to learn about what it’s like to work as a RVSR.

About VBA

At VBA, we live our mission every day to serve and support Veterans who have “borne the battle” in an energetic and collaborative work environment across our 56 regional offices and 8 business lines. It’s a mission we take personally — of our over 30,000 employees, 53% are Veterans. 

Our goal is to attract, develop, and retain passionate, high-performing employees who are interested in making a difference, while providing generations of Veterans — and their survivors — with the care and benefits they deserve.  

When you join our team, you become an essential part of an organization dedicated to ensuring Veterans receive the benefits they’ve earned in a way that honors their service. What you do matters, so come experience the rewards of a fulfilling career at VBA. 

Read more on the VBA jobs page 

Learn more about the Veteran Readiness and Employment program

VA’s vocational rehabilitation counselors and specialists help Veterans build fulfilling, independent lives after injury, illness, or service-related transitions through the Veteran Readiness and Employment (VR&E) program. Combine your clinical expertise, career counseling experience, and compassionate advocacy to support Veterans as they navigate employment, education, and long-term recovery goals.

Learn more about VR&E
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