Skip to main content
New York Legal information and assistance website
About us Feedback New York Legal Alerts
Legal Term Glossaries Brochures & Handouts 
  
    
 
Veterans and Military > 
Insurance for Veterans and Family Members
FIND A LAWYER
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS
FINDING OTHER HELP
GOING TO COURT
  Fact sheets and booklets about your legal rights

Click on any of the titles below to learn more. Scroll to see all resources. If you need help finding something, click here to ask for Live Help.

Email or save this information for yourself or share it with others!

Bookmark and Share

 
There are 21 resources  
LIfe Insurance - (11)
TRICARE - (4)
General Benefit Information - (6)
  LIfe Insurance
 
   Life Insurance (Separate Website)
Insurance programs that were developed to provide insurance benefits for veterans and service members who may not be able to get insurance from private companies because of the extra risks involved in military service, or a service connected disability
By: U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs
  
   
   Family Servicemembers Group Life Insurance (Family SGLI or FSGLI) This link opens in a new window. (Separate Website)
Family SGLI provides life insurance coverage to the spouses and dependent children of members insured under the Servicemembers? Group Life Insurance (SGLI) program.
By: U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs

    Read this in: Spanish / Español
  
   
   Service-Disabled Veterans Insurance (S-DVI) This link opens in a new window. (Separate Website)
Service-Disabled Veterans Insurance is life insurance for veterans who have received a service-connected disability rating by the Department of Veterans Affairs
By: U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs

    Read this in: Spanish / Español
  
   
   Application for service-disabled veterans insurance (S-DVI) This link opens a PDF file in a new window.  If you do not have an accessible Acrobat Reader, a link is provided at the bottom of this page. (Separate Website)
VA Form 29-4364 is used to apply for basic S-DVI
By: U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs

    Read this in: Spanish / Español
  
   
   Waiver of S-DVI Premiums for Total Disability This link opens a PDF file in a new window.  If you do not have an accessible Acrobat Reader, a link is provided at the bottom of this page. (Separate Website)
VA Form 29-357 is used to apply for a total disability waiver of S-DVI premiums
By: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
  
   
   Veterans' Group Life Insurance (VGLI) (Separate Website)
VGLI is a program of post-separation insurance which allows service members to convert their SGLI coverage to renewable term insurance
By: U. S. Department of Veteran's Affairs

    Read this in: Spanish / Español
  
   
   Servicemembers Group Life Insurance (SGLI) This link opens in a new window. (Separate Website)
SGLI is a program of low-cost term life insurance protection for members of the uniformed services
By: U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs

    Read this in: Spanish / Español
  
   
   Download SGLI and VGLI Forms (Separate Website)
You may download SGLI and VGLI forms from this page
By: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
  
   
   Traumatic Injury Protection Under Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance This link opens in a new window. (Separate Website)
The Traumatic Injury Protection Under Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance (TSGLI) program provides automatic traumatic injury coverage to all members of the uniformed services covered under the Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance (SGLI) program.
By: U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs

    Read this in: Spanish / Español
  
   
   Veterans Mortgage Life Insurance (VMLI) This link opens in a new window. (Separate Website)
Veterans Mortgage Life Insurance (VMLI) is an insurance program that provides insurance coverage on the home mortgages of certain severely disabled veterans.
By: U. S. Department of Veteran's Affairs
  
   
   The Uniformed Services Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) (Separate Website)
Retired pay stops when you die. The Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) helps make up for the loss of part of this income. It pays your eligible survivors an inflation-adjusted monthly income
By: Office of the Under Secretary of Defense
  
   
back to top      
 
  TRICARE
 
   TRICARE Benefits Information (Separate Website)
Learn about eligibility, plans;,and medical, dental, vision and prescription coverage
By: Tricare Management Activity, a component of the Military Health System

    Read this in: Spanish / Español
  
   
   TRICARE Eligibility (Separate Website)
Your key to TRICARE eligibility depends on your enrollment in the Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System (DEERS).
By: Tricare Management Activity, a component of the Military Health System

    Read this in: Spanish / Español
  
   
   Pre-activation Benefit for National Guard and Reserve (Separate Website)
National Guard and Reserve members who are issued delayed-effective-date active duty orders for more than 30 days in support of a contingency operation may qualify for "early eligibility for TRICARE" beginning on the later of:
By: Tricare Management Activity, a component of the Military Health System

    Read this in: Spanish / Español
  
   
   Get answers to questions about the TRICARE benefit (Separate Website)
A searchable database to get answers to questions about the TRICARE benefit.
By: TRICARE Management Activity, a component of the Military Health System

    Read this in: Spanish / Español
  
   
back to top      
 
  General Benefit Information
 
   A Survivor's Guide to Benefits: Taking Care of Our Own This link opens a PDF file in a new window.  If you do not have an accessible Acrobat Reader, a link is provided at the bottom of this page. (Separate Website)
This guide is intended to aid you as you work through the difficulty and pain of losing a loved one who was serving in the military
By: Department of Defense
  
   
   Federal Benefits for Veterans, Dependents and Survivors (Separate Website)
2010 booklet that provides the official summary of benefits available to veterans and their dependents
By: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

    Read this in: Spanish / Español
  
   
   Benefits (Separate Website)
This webpage provides information about benefits that are available to veterans and their families.
By: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

    Read this in: Spanish / Español
  
   
   VA Fact Sheets (Separate Website)
These fact sheets provide basic information on VA benefit programs by category
By: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

    Read this in: Spanish / Español
  
   
   Service Members & Veterans Resource Guide (Separate Website)
Service Members & Veterans Resource Guide - distributed by the New York State Attorney General's office.
By: New York State Attorney General's Office
  
   
   The New York City Veteran's Legal Resource Guide This link opens a PDF file in a new window.  If you do not have an accessible Acrobat Reader, a link is provided at the bottom of this page. (Separate Website)
This guide provides eligible low income veterans with a list of resources throughout New York City ranging from legal service providers to social service organizations.
By: City Bar Justice Center - Veterans' Assistance Project
  
   
back to top      
 
 
Adobe Acrobat Reader required. (If you are using a screen reader that does not support PDF format, copy the PDF link, and use the Access Adobe online form to convert this file to HMTL text.)
Get Acrobat Reader  
 
 
Disclaimer  
Powered by ProBono.Net

LawHelp.org/NY is provided as a public service by the New York LawHelp Consortium.

 

 

Icons of LawHelp/NY funder organizations

 
 
Find us on:
      
 
 
 
 
 

LiveHelp is here! Click here to learn more
 
   Need Help with Your Search?
 
 
You Are Here
NY / Queens

Choose Another City, County or Zip Code
 
 
 
 
Choose Another Subtopic
Appeals
Citizenship through Military Service
Disabled Veterans
Interactive Forms for Veterans and Servicemembers
Military Service Records, Discharge Issues, Forms and Applications
Reservists and National Guard
Senior Veterans
Tax Issues for Veterans and Servicemembers
Veteran and Military Families
Veteran and Servicemember Rights in Housing and Home Loans
Veterans' Benefits
Veterans' Education and Tuition Benefits
Veterans' Employment and Financial Rights
Veterans' Health
Women Veterans
 
 
 
View Results for all subtopics
 
 
 
 
Legal Aid Resources in Other Languages
Albanian / shqip
Amharic / Amharic
Arabic / العربية
Armenian / Հայերէն
Bengali / বাংলা
Bosnian / Bosanski
Bulgarian / Български
Cambodian / Khmer
Chinese / 中文
Farsi / فارسی
French / Français
German / Deutsch
Greek / Ελληνικά
Haitian Creole / Kreyòl ayisyen
Hebrew / עברית
Hindi / हिन्दी
Hmong / Hmoob
Italian / italiano
Japanese / 日本語
Korean / 한국어
Laotian / ພາສາລາວ
Mandarin Chinese / 官話
Oromo / Afaan Oromo
Polish / polski
Portuguese / português
Punjabi / ਪੰਜਾਬੀ
Russian / Pусский
Serbo-Croatian / Srpskohrvatski Jezik
Somali / Soomaali
Spanish / Español
Swahili / Kiswahili
Tagalog / Tagalog
Tigrina / Ge?ez
Turkish / Türkçe
Ukrainian / Українська
Urdu / اردو
Vietnamese / Tiếng Việt
Yiddish
 
 
 
 
  © 2001 - 2011, Pro Bono Net, All Rights Reserved. Legal Help in Other States

Bobby WorldWide Approved 508 Level A conformance icon, W3C-WAI Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0