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Military Spouse Liaison — a Named Post for Licences, Child Care and the Skills Form

Va. Code § 2.2-2002.2 creates the position of Military Spouse Liaison inside the Department of Veterans Services, with five statutory duties: help with professional licences and employment, research and materials on the challenges spouses face, work on barriers to child care, a standardised form to present a spouse’s skills and education to employers, and whatever else the Commissioner assigns.

Verified August 23, 2026

What this benefit is

Va. Code § 2.2-2002.2 creates the position of Military Spouse Liaison inside the Department of Veterans Services, with five statutory duties: help with professional licences and employment, research and materials on the challenges spouses face, work on barriers to child care, a standardised form to present a spouse’s skills and education to employers, and whatever else the Commissioner assigns.

What it's worth: A named advocate inside the Department for licences, child care and employment matching

  • § 2.2-2002.2(A): "There is created in the Department of Veterans Services the position of Military Spouse Liaison to conduct outreach and advocate on behalf of military spouses in the Commonwealth."
  • Subsection B sets five duties: assisting military spouses with professional licences and credentials or other employment in the Commonwealth; coordinating research on the challenges military spouses face and producing informational materials for affected families; examining barriers to child care access and recommending solutions in coordination with military installations and the Department of Education; creating with the Virginia Employment Commission and employers a standardised form to help military spouses present skills and education for employment matching; and other assignments designated by the Commissioner.
  • Enacted 2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 309; amended 2023, cc. 246, 247.
  • The section creates a post and duties. It sets no eligibility test, no application and no payment.

Who is entitled to it

  • The post exists to conduct outreach and advocate on behalf of military spouses.
  • Your home is in Virginia.

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. 1Ask for the Military Spouse Liaison by title. The post is created by statute and sits inside the Department of Veterans Services, so a general enquiry line is not the fastest way to it.
  2. 2Lead with the licence problem if that is what you have. Assisting military spouses with professional licences and credentials is the first duty the statute names, and Virginia’s spouse licensure route under Va. Code § 54.1-119 is the mechanism it feeds.
  3. 3Ask about the standardised skills form. Subsection B(4) directs the liaison to create it with the Virginia Employment Commission and with employers, specifically so a spouse’s skills and education can be matched to work.
  4. 4Raise child care as a policy problem, not just a personal one. The statute directs the liaison to examine barriers to access and recommend solutions in coordination with military installations and the Department of Education.
  5. 5Do not expect money. The section creates outreach and advocacy, not a payment.
Form
None — contact the liaison
File with
Virginia Department of Veterans Services, Military Spouse Liaison
No renewal
Once granted it does not need renewing.
Worth knowingThe liaison is an advocate, not an adjudicator. A licensing board still decides a licence; what the post supplies is someone inside state government whose statutory job is to push on that board’s behalf.
Known gapNo name, phone number or email for the liaison was read this session. Ask the Department for the post by its statutory title.

Sources

Why only one source type: The section creates the post and enumerates its duties exhaustively; dvs.virginia.gov, which would carry the liaison’s own page, refused retrieval this session as in prior ones.

This finder provides an informational match, not a government eligibility determination. The responsible agency decides your application.