NVLSP’s Basic Training Course
You must purchase the Basic Training Course to gain entry to the site and course materials. Visit the NVLSP Bookstore for order details. **
This course is an introduction to veterans law and advocacy for anyone who helps veterans and their family members get benefits from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and potential claimants for VA benefits.
This is not an advanced course. It does not attempt to cover every topic or issue in VA law. This course will discuss almost every VA benefit, but it will focus on entitlement to compensation and pension benefits because these benefits are often especially difficult to obtain. For example, almost all the cases that come before the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (CAVC) deal with entitlement to compensation and pension. We also do not discuss the many varied state veterans’ benefits programs.
We hope many veterans, as well as those providing (or interested in providing) informal advice about VA benefits, will take this course. However, veterans should not expect to represent themselves even after successfully completing this course. That would be a major mistake. But a claimant who takes this course will be better able to assist his or her representative.
An informed veteran is far more likely to obtain his or her rightfully earned VA benefits.