Kentucky Department of Veterans Affairs, Region 17 Benefits Representative for Boyd County
Kentucky has no county veterans service officers; the Department of Veterans Affairs' Region 17 representative, Amanda Osborne (606-585-3833, [email protected]), serves Boyd with Carter, Elliott, Greenup and Lawrence counties.
Also called: KDVA, benefits representative, field representative, claims, appeals, Amanda Osborne, 606-585-3833, Region 17, Ashland VA clinic, Ashland, Catlettsburg, Meads, Westwood, Ironville, Summit, Buena Vista.
For: Veteran or service member, spouse, child, survivor.
The arrangement is the State's; see the Kentucky entry. Kentucky has no county veterans service officers in statute - claims help comes from the Kentucky Department of Veterans Affairs' Veterans Benefits Field Representatives (see the Kentucky entry on the division). The Department's representative list, read 2026-10-30, assigns Region 17 to Amanda Osborne, 606-585-3833, [email protected], covering "Boyd, Carter, Elliott, Greenup, Lawrence".
Where. The Department's regional administrator for eastern Kentucky is Brian Bowman (606-422-9799, [email protected]). VA care for the county runs through the VA Medical Center in Huntington, West Virginia, and its community clinics; the VA's Veterans Justice Outreach specialist for the area works with the county's circuit court (see that entry). Boyd County's own site names no veterans office - its Departments and Our Offices lists carry none - so the representative is the front door.
What the help is. Free, accredited help with VA compensation and pension claims, survivor and burial benefits, appeals, claim-document certification, military records requests, discharge upgrades and the state's own benefits. No rating is needed to ask.
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Veterans, dependants and survivors
Free claims help from the Department of Veterans Affairs; no rating is needed to ask.
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