{
  "name": "Veterans benefits navigation",
  "slug": "veterans-benefits-navigation",
  "category": "Doc-prep & paperwork",
  "summary": "Help veterans understand what they may be entitled to across six countries’ systems. US law sharply restricts charging for claims help, so this blueprint is built around what’s legal: free navigation, funded adjacently.",
  "updated": "2026-07-10",
  "human_page": "https://pulse.theaslangroupllc.com/fieldguide/veterans-benefits-navigation/",
  "hub": "https://pulse.theaslangroupllc.com/fieldguide/",
  "engines": [
    {
      "vertical": "vetpulse",
      "name": "VetPulse",
      "base_url": "https://api.vetpulse.theaslangroupllc.com",
      "openapi": "https://api.vetpulse.theaslangroupllc.com/openapi.json",
      "llms_txt": "https://api.vetpulse.theaslangroupllc.com/llms.txt",
      "endpoints": [
        {
          "path": "/api/vet/disability",
          "price": "$0.15",
          "description": "Veteran disability rating analysis (US, UK, Canada, Australia, NZ, Germany)"
        },
        {
          "path": "/api/vet/aid-attendance",
          "price": "$0.15",
          "description": "Veteran pension / Aid & Attendance-style eligibility (US, UK, Canada, Australia, NZ, Germany)"
        },
        {
          "path": "/api/vet/state-benefits",
          "price": "$0.10",
          "description": "State/regional veteran benefits (US states; UK, Canada, Australia, NZ, Germany regions)"
        },
        {
          "path": "/api/vet/education",
          "price": "$0.10",
          "description": "Veteran education benefit comparison (US GI Bill; UK, Canada, Australia, NZ, Germany equivalents)"
        },
        {
          "path": "/api/vet/discounts",
          "price": "$0.05",
          "description": "Verified veteran discounts by category (US, UK, Canada, Australia, NZ, Germany)"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "payment": {
    "protocol": "x402",
    "currency": "USDC",
    "networks": [
      "base",
      "solana"
    ],
    "pricing_note": "Prices shown are the live public catalog — the same wholesale sheet agents pay per call. No subscription.",
    "human_onramp": "Self-serve starter key (no crypto wallet needed): https://pulse.theaslangroupllc.com/fieldguide/start/?bp=veterans-benefits-navigation — scoped key with a $0.25 trial balance; top up by card (Stripe) or USDC. API: POST https://pulse.theaslangroupllc.com/api/wholesale/register {contact, scope: \"vetpulse\"}. Email fallback: info@theaslangroupllc.com with subject \"Starter key: veterans-benefits-navigation\"."
  },
  "setup_steps": [
    "If you’re serious about claims work, start the VA accreditation process (or your country’s equivalent) now; it takes months, and everything else can run while you wait.",
    "Build a relationship with your local VSO chapter. You’re a feeder, not a competitor, and they’ll tell you exactly where the legal lines sit.",
    "Run free benefit-overview sessions for five veteran families and document (with permission) what they discovered.",
    "Decide your revenue model up front: accredited claims practice, adjacent coaching, or free community service funded by something else you run. Write it down and stick to it."
  ],
  "licensing_notes": [
    "US federal law (38 U.S.C. §§ 5901–5905) restricts who may prepare, present, or prosecute VA benefits claims: accredited attorneys, claims agents, and VSO representatives. Charging unaccredited fees for claims prep is unlawful, and companies doing it anyway are a recurring scandal in this space. What remains legal: selling general education and research that isn’t tied to preparing a specific claim, helping with non-claim paperwork, and charging for coaching on non-VA matters (state benefits, discounts, transition logistics). The clean paths to charging for claims work itself are VA accreditation (the claims-agent exam is open to non-attorneys) or partnering with accredited practitioners. Other countries have their own rules; the engine flags the boundaries per country.",
    "This category carries a zero-tolerance honesty bar: no percentage-of-backpay arrangements, no \"we’ll get your rating increased\" promises, ever."
  ],
  "compliance": {
    "earnings": "Educational content. No earnings claims or income projections; results depend on operator effort, market, and pricing.",
    "posture": "Flat-fee self-help document preparation where documents are involved: the customer signs and files; the operator never represents clients or works on contingency.",
    "sensitive_category": true
  },
  "publisher": {
    "name": "The Aslan Group LLC",
    "contact": "info@theaslangroupllc.com"
  }
}