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Transition Assistance
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has an active role in Transition Assistance
Program (TAP) and Disabled Transition Assistance Program (DTAP) throughout
the United States and around the world. Since the implementation of TAP/DTAP
through the original legislation VA has provided benefit information to separating
service members and their families.
VA encourages all separating service members to contact their respective Family
Service Centers/Transition Center to determine when the Transition Assistance
Briefings are scheduled for a particular site and attend. These briefings provide
information which will help you make the transition to civilian life easier
by ensuring you are aware of the many VA benefits available to you.
Military Services Coordinators (MSCs) conduct TAP/DTAP briefings at transition
sites located at military installations across the country as well as at locations
in Europe and the Far East. These briefings provide information on the full
range of VA benefits to include but not limited to disability compensation,
education, home loan program, insurance, vocational rehabilitation, and burial
benefits.
Disabled transition (DTAP) is an integral part of the transition program and
concentrates on those service members being separated due to a disability incurred
while on active duty.
Almost without exception a MSC is assigned to each VA Regional Office across
the country and he or she visits the transition sites within the respective
state to provide the TAP/DTAP briefings. VA also has an Overseas Military Services
Program in which VA representatives are assigned to host transition sites in
both the European and Pacific Theaters. These representatives provide benefit
briefings at transition sites throughout the country to which they are assigned.
This program is jointly funded with the Department of Defense.
VA currently has counselors assigned in Germany, England, Italy, Japan, and
on Okinawa. Itinerant service is also provided in Spain, Turkey, Iceland, Panama,
and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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