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Orange County Veterans Service Agency

The Orange County Veterans Service Agency in Goshen informs and assists veterans, their families and service members about VA benefits and rights, runs the veterans' shuttle to the Castle Point and Bronx VA hospitals, delivers a veterans food pantry, and helps with burials and grave markers. Call 845-291-2470.

Also called: VSA, county veterans service agency, claims help, Goshen, Christian Farrell, Castle Point, shuttle, van, food pantry, Veterans' Services Law 14, pension.

For: Veteran or service member, spouse, child, survivor.

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The Orange County Veterans Service Agency is the county agency every New York county must keep under Veterans' Services Law 14; see the New York entry on local veterans' service agencies. Office: 111 Craigville Road, Goshen, NY 10924, at the Veterans Memorial Cemetery grounds (845-291-2470; fax 845-291-2558), weekdays 9 to 5, counseling hours 10 to noon and 1 to 4. Director Christian Farrell. The agency also holds outreach at the Castle Point VA Medical Center. What it does. It informs and assists veterans, their families and members of the military about VA benefits, rights and privileges - claims filing and status, appeals and survivor claims - and helps with funerals, government grave markers, military records and flag retirement. It runs the veterans' shuttle to the Castle Point and Bronx VA hospitals for medical appointments, and a veterans food pantry that delivers bags of food to homes. The 2026 Document Center carries a VA benefits presentation flyer from the agency's outreach. See also the New York entry on burial of veterans without means, which the County owes separately under General Municipal Law 148.

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Thresholds for Orange County Veterans Service Agency
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Veterans, their families, survivors and service membersFree. No rating is needed.

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