Your record is being written right now. Read it before you separate.
Benefits Delivery at Discharge is a VA program that lets you file your own disability claim 180 to 90 days before separation. VeteranAI is self-help software you operate: read your service treatment records, learn what the process asks for, and write your own statements while you still have access to military medical.
- $25/month, cancel anytime
- Never a percentage of your benefits
- Built by a veteran
- Day oneA BDD claim decided in time is effective the day after separation.
- Same rulesBDD uses the same evidence standards as any other VA claim.
Missed the window? You can still file after separation. VA publishes the program rules — we point you to them, we don’t decide whether you qualify.
A VA program, not a product. Here's how it reads.
Benefits Delivery at Discharge is run by VA. Everything below is the published rule — you decide what to do with it.
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Filed before you're out
You submit while still on active duty, inside the 180-to-90-day window. VA begins its review before your separation date rather than after it.
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Records are close at hand
You still have access to military treatment facilities and your service treatment records. After separation, gathering the same documents takes longer.
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Effective the day after
Where a BDD claim is decided before you separate, the decision takes effect the day after discharge — no gap between service and coverage.
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Same evidence standards
BDD is a timing program, not an easier one. The evidence VA asks for is the same as any other disability claim.
Pick a stage. See what it involves.
Every action below is yours. We are software you operate — we never contact VA, and we never file anything.
Request your service treatment records and start a list of what you have been seen for. Write things down while the details are fresh — including the ones that seem minor to you.
Where VeteranAI fits: Upload your records to the C-File Analyzer and read them in plain language: what was reported, what was examined, what was treated.
- You submit the claim yourself on VA.gov, in your own name.
- We never contact VA, log into VA systems, or file anything.
- A free accredited VSO can represent you at any point — including alongside this.
- Flat monthly price. No percentage of back pay, ever.
There’s no form for this. Write down what’s bugging you.
You don’t need to gather much of anything. Get every issue that’s been nagging you into writing — what hurts, when it started, how it shows up on duty. The rest builds from there.
- You request them
Service treatment records
Your in-service medical record: what you reported, what was examined, what was treated. Upload them and read what they actually say, in plain language.
Read your records → - You write it
Personal statement
Your account of how a condition affects your day. We show what a statement is expected to cover and help you get your own words down — you review every line.
See what it covers → - Your clinician writes it
Nexus letter
A medical opinion is a doctor’s judgment, not software’s. We explain what a nexus letter needs to contain and what “at least as likely as not” means, so you can bring an informed ask to your own provider.
Understand the standard → - Your buddy writes it
Buddy / lay statement
Someone who was there says what they saw, in their own words, and reads every line before signing it. Nobody should ever sign a first-person account they didn’t write.
How buddy letters work →
Ask Six how the process works.
Six is an AI reference tool for looking up how VA claims work — the process, the terminology, the forms, the timelines. It explains the rules. You decide what to do with them.
- What is Benefits Delivery at Discharge?
- What happens at a C&P exam?
- What is a secondary condition?
- What does a service treatment record contain?
Six explains the rules. It doesn’t represent you, it doesn’t tell you what to claim, and it never contacts VA on your behalf.
Start by reading your own record.
Everything in a BDD claim comes out of documents you already have a right to. $25/month, flat — never a percentage of your benefits, and no one will call you. Free accredited help from a VSO is always an option too, and a good one.
Start for free- Cancel anytime
- Veteran-owned
- Never a cut of your back pay