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Anyone Charging You to Get Your Benefits Must Hand You a Signed Disclosure First

Under NRS 417.135 a person who provides services to obtain veterans’ benefits for compensation must give a written disclosure and obtain the client’s signature before entering into the agreement. The Attorney General may recover up to $10,000 for each violation, and an aggrieved person may sue for consumer fraud.

Verified August 23, 2026

What this benefit is

Under NRS 417.135 a person who provides services to obtain veterans’ benefits for compensation must give a written disclosure and obtain the client’s signature before entering into the agreement. The Attorney General may recover up to $10,000 for each violation, and an aggrieved person may sue for consumer fraud.

What it's worth: A signed written disclosure before any paid claims agreement, and a civil fraud remedy

  • NRS 417.135 requires any person who provides services to obtain veterans’ benefits in exchange for compensation to provide written disclosure and obtain the signature of the client or prospective client before entering into an agreement.
  • NRS 417.137 allows the Attorney General to recover a civil penalty of not more than $10,000 for each violation of NRS 417.133 or 417.135.
  • A person aggrieved by a violation of NRS 417.133 or 417.135 may bring an action for consumer fraud under NRS 41.600.
  • "Services to obtain veterans’ benefits" means services a veteran or an agent of a veteran uses to obtain federal, state or other benefits or entitlements for veterans.
  • The requirement does not apply to an attorney or agent accredited by the federal VA to assist veterans with filing claims for benefits and related matters.

Who is entitled to it

  • The protection runs to the veteran or claimant being charged.
  • Your home is in Nevada.

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

Deadline: Before you sign anything — the disclosure comes first, not after
  1. 1Do not sign a fee agreement for claims help without the written disclosure in front of you. The disclosure is required first, and its absence is itself the violation.
  2. 2Read the sentence the form is built around: the same services are offered free of charge, or at no cost, by federally chartered service organisations and by veterans service officers.
  3. 3Check accreditation before paying anyone. The requirement does not reach an attorney or agent accredited by the federal VA, and accredited representatives can be looked up on the federal register.
  4. 4Understand the federal rule underneath it: no individual may assist in the preparation, presentation and prosecution of a claim for VA benefits as an agent or attorney without federal accreditation.
  5. 5Keep the signed copy. It is your evidence of what was promised and what was charged.
  6. 6If there was no disclosure, tell the Attorney General. The penalty is up to $10,000 for each violation, and you may separately bring a consumer fraud action under NRS 41.600.
  7. 7Before paying anyone at all, ring a state veterans service officer. The department publishes contact numbers across the state and the assistance is free.
Form
The department’s NRS 417.135 disclosure form, signed by both parties
File with
Keep your signed copy; complain to the Attorney General if there was none
No renewal
Once granted it does not need renewing.
Worth knowingThis is the corpus’s first consumer-protection record aimed at the people who sell benefit help. The disclosure is not a formality — the point of it is to make a claimant read, before signing, that the same work is done free by accredited service officers.
Known gapWhether NRS 417.133 caps or forbids fees outright, as opposed to requiring disclosure, was not established this session. Ask a veterans service officer or the Attorney General before concluding a fee is lawful.

Sources

Why only one source type: The department publishes the operative statutory text on the form it requires providers to use. The legislature’s statute host refused every connection this session, so NRS 417.133, 417.135 and 417.137 were not read from the code itself.

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