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Office of Women Veterans — the State Says It Makes No Distinction

New Jersey states plainly that the benefits on its veterans department site apply to all veterans and make no distinction between men and women, and refers gender-specific needs to the federal VA. What the state adds is outreach and women veterans service officers.

Verified August 23, 2026

What this benefit is

New Jersey states plainly that the benefits on its veterans department site apply to all veterans and make no distinction between men and women, and refers gender-specific needs to the federal VA. What the state adds is outreach and women veterans service officers.

What it's worth: Outreach and women veterans service officers — the benefits themselves are not gendered

  • We publish this at zero because the department states in terms that its benefits make no distinction between men and women. Recording that stops a veteran hunting for a parallel women’s scheme that the state says does not exist.

Who is entitled to it

  • You are the veteran.
  • Your home is in New Jersey.

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. 1Read the state’s own statement before you search further: information on the department’s site is applicable to all veterans and makes no distinction between men and women, and the benefits it names — civil service veterans preference, the property tax deduction or exemption, admission to a veterans long-term care facility, burial in the state veterans cemetery — are open on the same terms.
  2. 2Ask for a female veterans service officer if you would prefer one. The department states there are female veterans service officers in the north, south and central parts of the state.
  3. 3Use the regional veterans service office network for the claim itself. The Division of Veterans Services, Bureau of Veterans Benefits, provides information and guidance on filing claims, and its officers also handle employment, education, burial, counselling, housing, social and medical services.
  4. 4For gender-specific health care, the department refers you to the federal VA Center for Women Veterans rather than running its own provision — it names reproductive health care, mammograms and family planning assistance as VA services.
  5. 5If you are homeless or at risk, ask the department about transition assistance and shelters for veterans in need, and the VA about its housing, employment and reentry programmes — the department names both routes rather than a women-specific one.
  6. 6Email vbb@dva.nj.gov if you cannot reach an office. It is the address the department gives for women veterans questions as well as general ones.
File with
A regional veterans service office, Bureau of Veterans Benefits
No renewal
Once granted it does not need renewing.
CorrectionA published absence stated by the department itself, which is rare. Most states leave you to infer that there is no separate women’s scheme; this one writes it down.
Worth knowingThe department’s own outreach framing is a scale problem rather than a policy one: it cites 325,981 veterans in the state as of 30 September 2019, of whom 25,791 are women, and describes reaching them as a priority.
Known gapThe page carries no statutory basis, no coordinator by name, no childcare provision and no women-specific housing programme. Its population figures are several years old. The department split into two departments on 9 January 2026, so confirm the office still sits where this record says before relying on a contact route.

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