The Oregon Department of Veterans' Affairs (ODVA) continues to help our state's veterans and their families to improve the quality of their lives. From helping veterans to file claims for education, medical or other benefits to assisting them in obtaining earned medals and military awards, ODVA is here to serve you.

The Oregon Department of Veterans' Affairs (ODVA) offers a state veterans' home loan (ORVET) that is an additional and distinctively separate benefit from the USDVA (Federal VA) Home Loan Guaranty Program. The current maximum loan amount is $417,000 or a veterans' remaining eligibility amount if there has been a previous ODVA loan.

The Oregon Veterans' Home provides a residence for veterans who have honorably served our country, or their spouses, who are now in need of skilled nursing and rehabilitative or Alzheimer's care.

The Home's recreation program offers numerous therapeutic benefits to residents through physical activity, creative expression and social involvement. These are essential keys to allow each resident to maintain a healthy, well-rounded lifestyle to the maximum extent possible... physically, mentally and socially.

In an effort to encourage disabled veterans, Get a Vet in the Game will be taking a group of disabled veterans to the opening ceremony of the 2010 Paralympics in Vancouver, British Columbia. To share their experience, Get a Vet in the Game has started a Facebook page as well as a page on the Operation Homefront website.

The ODVA and Service Officers statewide stand ready provide free benefits counseling, claims service and other assistance to military spouses and their dependents.

My Health-E-Vet (MHV) is the gateway to veteran health benefits and services. It will help you better understand and manage your health benefits.

Oregon veteran license plates will be issued to qualifying veterans with proof of military service--a DD-214 or DD-215.

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Census information affects the numbers of seats our state occupies in the U.S. House of Representatives. Census data is used to advocate for causes, rescue disaster victims, prevent diseases, research markets, locate pools of skilled workers and more. Census information helps to determine how more than $400 billion of federal funding is spent annually on infrastructure and services like: hospitals, job training centers, schools, senior centers, public works projects, emergency and veteran's services.