Welcome to your Alabama Department of Veterans Affairs (ADVA) Website!
It is my honor as well as the honor and privledge of my fellow state
employees at ADVA to assist all veterans and respective eligible
family members.
Although we have some manpower and fiscal limitations, we are
committed and will continue to provide quality service and strive for the sustainment
of your well-earned federal and state veterans benefits. We will
always strive to uphold President Abraham Lincoln’s promise “to care
for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow, and his
orphan."
As a career naval officer and veteran, I fully comprehend that America owes its veterans a
debt that it can never fully repay. But for those benefits and
services that we have promised and sworn oaths on, we must make
good on those promises and guarantees earned through honorable
service rendered without question or hesitation in the face of
tremendous hardship and great peril.
I ask for your help in getting the word out to veterans to seek
their benefits and services whether it is Veterans Life
Insurance, Veterans Home Loan Guarantees, Medical Care, Education
Benefits, Disability Compensation or War Pensions. You can assist
in this effort by telling fellow veterans to visit their local
ADVA county offices and discuss their benefits with the Veteran
Service Officers. I encourage you to take the time to check out
our website for the various programs and services. Additionally,
feel free to visit the federal VA website at
www.va.gov for the complete spectrum
of U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs benefits or programs.
The Veterans Crisis Hotline is available 24/7 at 1-(800)-273-8255
for veterans with a crisis regarding safety, health and wellbeing
situations. Also, for those veterans and family members who are
homeless, or are at risk of becoming homeless, they are encouraged
to call the VA Homeless Veterans Hotline at 1-877 4AID-VETS
(1(800)424-3838). For additional information regarding benefits and
referral services for homeless veterans, the ADVA Homeless Veterans Coordinator
can be reached at 334-242-5066
Finally, I would like to say thank you to all veterans for honorably
serving this nation in uniform.