Editorial Policy & Standards

Why this matters

Veteran benefits, VA disability claims, and transition planning are consequential decisions. The wrong information can cost thousands of dollars in compensation, miss critical filing deadlines, or leave service members without healthcare during the most vulnerable months of transition.

We take that seriously. This page documents how we produce content, what sources we rely on, when our information is verified vs. interpretive, and how to flag corrections.

• Primary-source first. For VA disability content we cite 38 CFR Part 4 (Schedule for Rating Disabilities), the M21-1 Adjudication Procedures Manual, VA program guidance, and benefits.va.gov.
• Federal regulations and statutesare linked in any guide that references them. We don't paraphrase regulations; we cite them.
• Pay tables, BAH rates, and benefit dollar amounts are sourced from militarypay.defense.gov and DoD Defense Travel Management Office. We update these annually with the FY rate changes.
• State-specific veteran benefitsare sourced from each state's Department of Veterans Affairs and verified against the underlying state code or program documentation where available.
• First-hand and community-informed perspective. Our editorial team includes active-duty service members and veterans navigating the same systems we write about. That perspective shapes which questions we treat as urgent and which gaps we fill.

Conflict of interest & financial disclosure

• MTT is 100% free and ad-free for the user. No paywall, no subscription tier, no upsell.
• No affiliate revenueon any veteran-benefits content as of this writing. If we ever add affiliate links, we'll disclose them on the relevant page and update this section.
• Partner organizations are named on our About page when relevant. We do not accept payment to feature, recommend, or rank specific products, services, or vendors.
• No paid placement. The career guides, MOS pages, and state-comparison pages reflect what we believe is true for the audience — not what employers, schools, or sponsors paid us to say.

• Annual updates:pay tables, BAH rates, COLA-adjusted benefit amounts (DIC, A&A, pension, S-DVI), VA disability dollar amounts, and federal income/asset thresholds are reviewed and updated at the start of each fiscal year.
• Event-driven updates: when major legislation passes (e.g., the PACT Act of 2022, BRS modernization, Compact Act), affected pages are updated within weeks.
• Reader-flagged corrections: typically resolved within 7 days of report.
• Policy and program changes: we monitor VA Office of Public Affairs releases and federal register notices for changes that materially affect benefits eligibility or amounts.

Each blog post displays its publish date and, when applicable, a most-recent-update date.

If you find a factual error, an outdated rate or threshold, a broken regulation citation, or content that conflicts with current VA or DoD guidance — please tell us.

Email: contact@militarytransitiontoolkit.com

Include the URL of the page, what specifically is wrong, and a primary source that supports the correction if available. We aim to acknowledge corrections within 48 hours and resolve them within 7 days.

When a published post is materially corrected (not just a typo or formatting fix), we add an updated date to the post header so readers know the content has been revised.