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Women Veterans Program — Women Service Officers and a Private Consultation

The veterans department runs a Women Veterans Program with women veteran service officers available across its benefits offices, built around military sexual trauma claims and any other claim a woman veteran may have. Enrolment is by a form on the department site, and a woman service officer then makes contact for a private benefits consultation.

Verified August 23, 2026

What this benefit is

What it's worth: A woman service officer, a private consultation, and help with an MST claim

The department states that women veteran service officers are available to help women veterans across the state with a military sexual trauma claim, or a claim for any other benefit earned through service.
The department describes the programme as providing a trusting, positive atmosphere across all of its benefits offices.
Enrolment is by the Women Veteran Program enrolment form on the department site, after which a woman veteran service officer makes contact for a private benefits consultation.
The reason the department gives for the programme is that the vast majority of military sexual trauma cases are among women veterans, and that women veterans are often ill at ease speaking to male counsellors and service officers.
The programme is led by a named Women Veterans Program Administrator, appointed in April 2024, herself an Army veteran and former prisoner of war.
No page read this session sets a discharge test, a residency test or a rating test for the programme.
This is a claims and outreach service. Nothing read this session attaches a payment to it.

Who is entitled to it

The programme is for the veteran herself.
You served in the armed forces.
Your home is in W. Va.

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

1Enrol through the form rather than walking into a benefits office cold, if the point of contact matters to you. The department says a woman service officer contacts you afterwards for a private consultation.
2Say up front if the claim is a military sexual trauma claim. The programme is built around that claim in terms, and the service officers are the ones trained for it.
3Ask for a woman service officer by name of the programme if the office you reach does not offer one. The department describes them as available across its benefits offices, not at one location.
4Bring the discharge document if you have it. If you do not, the service officer can usually chase it — do not let a missing DD Form 214 stop you enrolling.
5Use the state programme alongside the federal one, not instead of it. The department points separately at the federal health care route and the federal centre for women veterans.
6If a claim was refused before, ask about it anyway. Service officers may represent a veteran to the benefits administration where the veteran disagrees with a decision.

Form: Women Veteran Program enrolment form
File with: Department of Veterans Assistance
Documents you will need: dd214
No renewal: Once granted it does not need renewing.

Worth knowingThe eligibility gate shown here is service, and nothing more, because service by a woman is not something this tool asks about. The programme as published is for women veterans; read the department page before relying on the match.

Known gapThe enrolment page itself renders no form content to a plain fetch, so what the form asks for was not established. Nothing read this session says whether the programme reaches Guard or Reserve service, or a bad-paper discharge.

Known gapNo statute behind the programme was read. The state code host refused every request this session, so whether the programme has a statutory floor — as it does in some states — is unresolved.

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