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The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has an active role in
Transition Assistance Program and Disabled Transition Assistance Program
(TAP/DTAP) throughout the United States and around the world. Since the
implementation of TAP/DTAP through the original legislation (P.L. 101-237) and
the legislation which expanded TAP/DTAP (P.L. 101-510) 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.
VA participates in the three day TAP/DTAP seminars under the auspices of a Memorandum of Understanding between Department of Defense, Department of Labor, and Veterans Administration. In addition to these seminars benefit information is also provided at separation and pre-retirement briefings and other information dissemination events such as General Military Training (GMT).
Following a TAP/DTAP briefing the MSC will routinely conduct one-on-one briefings where individual claims assistance and counseling is provided. While these individual counseling appointments are usually pre-scheduled, walk-in service is also accommodated where possible.
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 DOD.
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.
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.
VA participates in the three day TAP/DTAP seminars under the auspices of a Memorandum of Understanding between Department of Defense, Department of Labor, and Veterans Administration. In addition to these seminars benefit information is also provided at separation and pre-retirement briefings and other information dissemination events such as General Military Training (GMT).
Following a TAP/DTAP briefing the MSC will routinely conduct one-on-one briefings where individual claims assistance and counseling is provided. While these individual counseling appointments are usually pre-scheduled, walk-in service is also accommodated where possible.
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 DOD.
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.
