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Women Veterans Network — Community and Advocacy, Routed Back to Chapter 115

The Women Veterans Network sits inside the Executive Office of Veterans Services. It runs an annual conference, monthly wellness sessions, a newsletter and the Deborah Sampson Award, and takes membership applications. Its own benefits page routes women veterans to the federal VA and to the two Massachusetts routes open to every veteran — the town Veterans’ Service Officer and the Chapter 115 benefit estimator.

Verified August 23, 2026

What this benefit is

The Women Veterans Network sits inside the Executive Office of Veterans Services. It runs an annual conference, monthly wellness sessions, a newsletter and the Deborah Sampson Award, and takes membership applications. Its own benefits page routes women veterans to the federal VA and to the two Massachusetts routes open to every veteran — the town Veterans’ Service Officer and the Chapter 115 benefit estimator.

What it's worth: Membership, an annual conference, monthly wellness sessions and a newsletter — no separate cash benefit

  • The Executive Office of Veterans Services states the Women Veterans Network "is dedicated to empowering women veterans, ensuring their voices are heard, their contributions acknowledged, and their well-being enhanced through education, advocacy, and collaboration".
  • The Network takes membership applications through a published Women Veteran Network Application and a Women Veterans Network Collaborative Application, and runs a monthly newsletter.
  • Published activities include an annual WVN Conference, golf outings and wellness events, and a recurring "Veteran Women Wellness Wednesdays" series.
  • The Network administers the Deborah Sampson Award, presented at the annual Women Veterans Recognition Day ceremony at the State House.
  • The Network’s own Women Veteran Benefits Programs page, read in full this session, lists federal Veterans Benefits Administration programmes and two Massachusetts routes: Veterans’ Service Officers, described as being "in every city and town in Massachusetts, per Massachusetts state law", who take applications for state veterans’ benefits including Chapter 115 financial benefits and the annuity programme; and the Benefit Estimator Tool for Chapter 115 eligibility.
  • No women-only payment, grant or service appears on either page. The contact address is EOVSWomenVets@mass.gov.

Who is entitled to it

  • You served, which is what this route is written around.
  • Your home is in Massachusetts.

Not sure whether that describes you?

Answer a few questions about this benefit specifically — we only ask what this one actually depends on, and we stop as soon as we know.

How to claim it

  1. 1Join through the Women Veteran Network Application if you want the community side — the conference, the wellness sessions and the newsletter.
  2. 2Use EOVSWomenVets@mass.gov rather than a general line; the Network publishes that address for itself.
  3. 3Go to your town’s Veterans’ Service Officer for money. The Network’s own benefits page sends you there, and that officer takes the applications for Chapter 115 financial benefits and for the annuity programme.
  4. 4Run the Chapter 115 Benefit Estimator before assuming you are over the income line. The Network links it as the first step for low-income veterans, dependants and survivors.
  5. 5Look at the Collaborative Application if you run an organisation that serves women veterans rather than being one.
  6. 6Do not expect a women-only benefit. Both of the Network’s own pages route to programmes open to every Massachusetts veteran, and that is worth knowing before you spend time looking for a separate one.
Form
Women Veteran Network Application
File with
Massachusetts Executive Office of Veterans Services, Women Veterans Network — EOVSWomenVets@mass.gov
No renewal
Once granted it does not need renewing.
CorrectionThe Network is published at modest weight on purpose. Read its own benefits page and the Massachusetts content is the Veterans’ Service Officer and Chapter 115 — the same doors open to every veteran in the Commonwealth. The Network is the way in and the community around it, not a separate entitlement.
Worth knowingThe Deborah Sampson Award and Women Veterans Recognition Day are recognition, not benefits. They are listed here because they are the Network’s most visible activity and are easily mistaken for a programme.

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