Veterans Benefits Abbreviations

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A&A -- Aid and attendance
AAO -- Assistant adjudication officer
ACAP -- Annual clothing allowance payment
AGG -- Aggravated in service
AO -- Adjudication officer or Agent Orange
AOJ -- Agency of original jurisdiction
APA -- Administrative Procedures Act
AR -- Army regulation
AWOL -- Absence without official leave
BCD -- Bad conduct discharge
BCMR -- Board for Correction of Military Records
BCNR -- Board for Correction of Naval Records
BVA -- Board of Veterans’ Appeals
C-file -- Claims file
CAVC -- U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims
CBD -- Chief Benefits Director
C&C -- Confirmed and continued (rating decision)
CD -- Clemency discharge
C.F.R. -- Code of Federal Regulations
CHAMPUS -- Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services
CHAMPVA -- Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs
CMD -- Chief medical director
COG -- Convenience of the government
COLA -- Cost-of-living adjustment
Comp. -- Compensation
C&P -- Compensation and pension
DC -- Diagnostic code
DD -- Dishonorable discharge
DEA -- Dependents’ Educational Assistance
DIC -- Dependency and indemnity compensation
DOD -- Department of Defense
DRB -- Discharge Review Board
DSM IV -- Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th ed.)
DVA -- Department of Veterans Affairs
EAD -- Entry on active duty
EAJA -- Equal Access to Justice Act
EOD -- Entry on duty
ETS -- Expiration of term of service
EVR -- Eligibility verification report
FOIA -- Freedom of Information Act
GAO -- General Accounting Office
GC -- General Counsel
GD -- General discharge
GPO -- Government Printing Office
GSW -- Gunshot wound
HB -- Housebound
HD -- Honorable discharge
HO -- Hearing officer
IME -- Independent medical expert
INC -- Incurred in service
IT -- Incentive therapy
IU -- Individual unemployability
IVAP -- Income for VA purposes
LOD -- Line of duty
LSA -- List of Sections Affected (C.F.R.)
MAPR -- Maximum annual pension rate
NA -- National Archives
NHL -- Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma
NOA -- Notice of Appeal
NOD -- Notice of Death or Notice of Disagreement
NPRC -- National Personnel Records Center
NSC -- Non-service-connected
NSLI -- National Service Life Insurance
NSO -- National service officer
NVLSP -- National Veterans Legal Services Program
OGC -- Office of the General Counsel (VA)
OMPF -- Official military personnel file
OPC -- Outpatient clinic
Op. G.C. -- Opinion of the General Counsel
OPT -- Outpatient treatment
PCT -- Porphyria cutanea tarda (a liver dysfunction)
Pen. -- Pension
PIF -- Pending issue file
PL/P.L. -- Public Law
POA -- Power of attorney
POW -- Prisoner of war
PRES -- Presumption
PT -- Permanent total disability
PTSD -- Post-traumatic stress disorder
RAD -- Release from active duty
R.C. -- Regional counsel (chief legal authority in a VARO)
RE code -- Reenlistment code
REPS -- Restored Entitlement Program for Survivors
RH -- Insurance policy designation for veterans with service-connected disabilities
RI -- Rating increase
RPC -- Records Processing Center (St.Louis)
SC -- Service-connected
SDN -- Separation Designator Number
SDRP -- Special Discharge Review Program
SF -- Standard Form
SFW -- Shell fragment wound
SGLI -- Servicemen’s Group Life Insurance
SIRS -- Special Issue Rating System
SMC -- Special Monthly Compensation
SMIB -- Supplementary medical insurance benefit
SMP -- Special Monthly Pension
SMR -- Service medical record
SOC -- Statement of the Case
SPCM -- Special court-martial
SRD -- Schedule for Rating Disabilities
SSA -- Social Security Administration
SSDI -- Social Security Disability Income
SSI -- Supplemental Security Income
SSOC -- Supplemental Statement of the Case
STS -- Soft tissue sarcomas
TIN -- Transaction Identification Number
TPQ -- Third-party query
UCMJ -- Uniform Code of Military justice
UD -- Undesirable discharge
UOTHC -- (Discharge) under other than honorable conditions
USASCRUR -- United States Armed Services Center for Research of Unit Records
U.S.C.S. -- United States Code Service
U.S.C.A. -- United States Code Annotated
VA -- Department of Veterans Affairs (also used for old Veterans Administration)
VACO -- VA Central Office
VACOLS -- Veterans Appeals Control and Locator System
VADEX -- VA Index
VAMC -- VA medical center
VAOPC -- VA outpatient clinic
VAR -- VA regulation
VARO -- VA regional office
VBA -- Veterans Benefits Administration
VD -- Venereal disease
VEAP -- Veterans’ Education Assistance Program
VGLI -- Veterans’ Group Life Insurance
VHA -- Veterans Health Administration
VJRA -- Veterans’ Judicial Review Act of 1988
VSO -- Veterans service organization

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