VetTOC · Veteran benefits reference
Find a VA-accredited representative: www.va.gov/get-help-from-accredited-representative/find-rep
Ten points for a disabled veteran, five for a veteran, on open competitive examinations.
Gate: Any service-connected disability reaches the ten-point category
asbar.org/code-annotated/7-0206-procedure-for-filling-vacancies-examinations-appointments
The benefit most veterans search for first does not exist here, and does not need to. American Samoa levies no tax on real property, so there is no assessment to be exempted from.
asbar.org/legal-resources/code-annotated/code-annotated-by-title-and-chapter
Code 11.1003-1 exempts a specially equipped motor vehicle imported by and for the personal use of a severely disabled individual from the import excise tax.
asbar.org/code-annotated/11-1003-1-exemption-for-specially-equipped-motor-vehicles
American Samoa taxes income under the U.S. Internal Revenue Code as it stood on December 31, 2000. VA compensation is not taxed.
Readjustment counseling on Ottoville Road in Pago Pago. Separate from the VA clinic, with its own eligibility that needs no rating, no enrollment in VA health care, and no…
Whether VA pays your airfare to Honolulu is the most consequential eligibility question a veteran in American Samoa faces.
Gate: Thirty percent or more qualifies for travel to any VA care
There is no national cemetery and no VA grant-funded veterans cemetery in American Samoa, unlike Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands.
American Samoa Community College must charge GI Bill users the resident rate under 38 U.S.C. 3679(c), with no window after discharge since 2021.
The one VA facility on the island: a community-based outpatient clinic in Pago Pago running primary care, labs, mental health, and telehealth.
www.va.gov/pacific-islands-health-care/locations/faleomavaega-eni-faauaa-hunkin-va-clinic
Active duty counts toward the service tiers that set your leave accrual rate.
Code 7.0208 gives a career service employee ordered to active or reserve duty the right to be restored to their position, exercised within 120 days of release.
asbar.org/code-annotated/7-0208-restoration-of-preference-eligibles-previously-in-career-service
The recorded agreement under Code 37.1502 that makes a house on family land something a lender can take a lien on.
People born in American Samoa are U.S. nationals, not citizens. No VA benefit depends on citizenship.
uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title8-section1408&num=0&edition=prelim
The home loan that actually works in American Samoa. VA lends directly, because land here is communally owned and the ordinary VA guaranty has no collateral to attach to.
uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title38-section3765&num=0&edition=prelim
Code 1.0501 puts Veterans Day on 11 November. The personnel rules still put it on the fourth Monday in October, a date federal law abandoned in 1978.
79 federal benefits apply here as well and are left off this page; the place page lists them.