Choose a program below to open its practical Navigation Guide. If you are unsure where to begin, use Start Here to identify your status and objective. The MCB reference numbers keep each program easy to identify as forms and procedures change.

How the layers work together

• Claims & Benefits: What program, entitlement, claim, correction, payment, or survivor benefit is at issue?
• Navigation Guides: How do you navigate the current system?
• Military Life Record: Where does the issue fit in the person’s chronology?
• Records: What evidence proves the necessary facts?
• Forms & Systems: Which current form, portal, office, or submission channel is used?

Serving Members & Families

• MCB-001 — Military Pay, LES, Allowances & Entitlements
  Read pay statements, identify entitlements, and correct missing or incorrect payments.
• MCB-002 — Housing, BAH, BAS & Installation Support
  Navigate housing allowances, government quarters, subsistence, and installation resources.
• MCB-003 — TRICARE, Referrals, Authorizations & Claims
  Understand eligibility, plan rules, referrals, authorizations, claims, and appeal pathways.
• MCB-004 — Family, Dependents, DEERS & EFMP
  Keep family eligibility current and navigate dependency, special-needs, and enrollment systems.
• MCB-005 — PCS, Household Goods & Relocation Entitlements
  Plan orders, moves, household-goods shipments, loss/damage claims, and reimbursement.
• MCB-006 — TDY, Official Travel & Reimbursement
  Document authorized travel, vouchers, per diem, advances, and disputed expenses.
• MCB-007 — Education, Tuition Assistance, Credentials & GI Bill Transfer
  Coordinate military education programs, credentialing, and transferable education benefits.
• MCB-008 — Guard & Reserve Status, Points & Benefits
  Track duty status, qualifying service, retirement points, mobilization effects, and benefit eligibility.
• MCB-009 — SGLI, Beneficiaries & Emergency Planning
  Keep beneficiary elections, emergency contacts, powers, and family documents current.
• MCB-010 — Pay Errors, Debts, Waivers & Remission
  Trace the transaction, notice, debt basis, collection path, and available challenge.

Claims, Corrections & Administrative Review

• MCB-011 — Household Goods & Personal Property Claims
  Document loss or damage, notice, valuation, carrier responsibility, and claim deadlines.
• MCB-012 — Vehicle Accidents, Military Claims & Federal Claims
  Identify driver status, vehicle ownership, mission purpose, location, and the correct claim regime.
• MCB-013 — Correcting Military Personnel Records
  Build a correction packet from the original record, error, supporting evidence, and requested remedy.
• MCB-014 — Evaluations, Promotions & Adverse Administrative Records
  Preserve notices, rebuttals, evaluations, selection records, and administrative review rights.
• MCB-015 — Discharge Characterization & Upgrade Pathways
  Identify characterization, narrative reason, records, board jurisdiction, standards, and review route.
• MCB-016 — Awards, Decorations & Recognition Corrections
  Document the event, recommendation trail, orders, citations, and correction authority.
• MCB-017 — Injury, Line of Duty, MEB & PEB
  Build the medical and duty-status record from injury through fitness and disability determinations.
• MCB-018 — Medical & Disability Determination Challenges
  Separate treatment, fitness, service disability, VA disability, and review systems.
• MCB-019 — Security Clearance & Administrative Decisions
  Preserve notices, reasons, evidence, response rights, and applicable review procedures.
• MCB-020 — Appeals & Review: Choosing the Correct Lane
  Match the decision to the authorized reconsideration, appeal, correction, or judicial-review path.

Separation & Retirement

• MCB-021 — Transition Timeline, TAP & SkillBridge
  Work backward from the separation or retirement date and complete required transition milestones.
• MCB-022 — Final Medical, Dental, SHA & BDD
  Preserve the exit health record and coordinate time-sensitive pre-discharge disability procedures.
• MCB-023 — DD-214 Review & Separation Packet
  Verify service dates, character, awards, specialties, deployments, and separation data before the record becomes foundational.
• MCB-024 — Health Coverage After Separation
  Map TRICARE transition rules, retiree coverage, VA enrollment, and civilian coverage gaps.
• MCB-025 — Retirement Application & Timeline
  Track retirement request windows, orders, personnel actions, elections, and final processing.
• MCB-026 — Retired Pay, CRDP & CRSC
  Separate retired-pay computation, VA offsets, concurrent receipt, and combat-related compensation pathways.
• MCB-027 — Survivor Benefit Plan Election
  Understand the election window, beneficiary category, base amount, premiums, spouse concurrence rules, and later changes.
• MCB-028 — TSP & Financial Transition
  Preserve access and coordinate savings, debt, taxes, insurance, and income changes.

Veteran Benefits

• MCB-029 — VA Disability Compensation
  Build a claim around current disability, in-service event or condition, nexus/evidence, and effective-date rules.
• MCB-030 — VA Decision Reviews & Board Appeals
  Choose among Supplemental Claim, Higher-Level Review, and Board review based on the decision and evidence posture.
• MCB-031 — VA Health Care Enrollment & Access
  Navigate enrollment, priority, appointments, community care, records, and treatment decisions.
• MCB-032 — GI Bill & Education Benefits
  Confirm eligibility, entitlement, school approval, payments, transfers, and remaining benefits.
• MCB-033 — Veteran Readiness & Employment (VR&E)
  Understand rehabilitation entitlement, evaluation, planning, services, and review rights.
• MCB-034 — VA Home Loan
  Navigate eligibility, Certificate of Eligibility, lender process, appraisal, funding fee, and post-closing issues.
• MCB-035 — Veterans Pension & Aid and Attendance
  Identify service, income/net-worth, disability/age, medical-expense, and dependent factors.
• MCB-036 — Family Caregiver Programs
  Document eligibility, care needs, program decisions, reassessments, and review options.
• MCB-037 — VA Life Insurance
  Identify the policy/program, beneficiary record, premium status, claim process, and review route.
• MCB-038 — Veteran Employment & Federal Preference
  Preserve service documentation and distinguish preference, special hiring authorities, and employment programs.
• MCB-039 — Post-Service Record Corrections
  Use correction boards, archives, service departments, and VA evidence channels without conflating their jurisdictions.
• MCB-040 — VA Debts, Overpayments & Financial Hardship
  Identify the debt, collection status, dispute, waiver, repayment, and hardship options.

Death & Survivors

• MCB-041 — Final Pay & Arrears of Pay
  Identify unpaid military or retired pay, the designated beneficiary, required documents, and payment process.
• MCB-042 — SGLI & VGLI Claims
  Confirm coverage, beneficiary designation, claim documents, and insurer processing.
• MCB-043 — Survivor Benefit Plan Annuity
  Establish the election, eligible beneficiary, application, annuity account, and continuing certification requirements.
• MCB-044 — Dependency & Indemnity Compensation (DIC)
  Develop service-connection or qualifying-death evidence and preserve effective-date and dependency information.
• MCB-045 — Survivors Pension
  Evaluate wartime service, survivor status, income/net worth, and allowable medical expenses.
• MCB-046 — DEA Chapter 35 & Fry Scholarship
  Separate survivor/dependent education programs, eligibility, election issues, and school certification.
• MCB-047 — TRICARE for Survivors
  Maintain DEERS accuracy and identify survivor-specific coverage, enrollment, and timing rules.
• MCB-048 — Burial, National Cemetery & Military Honors
  Coordinate eligibility, burial allowance, cemetery, headstone/marker, flag, and honors requests.
• MCB-049 — Survivor IDs, DEERS & Dependency Status
  Preserve eligibility after death and correct identity or relationship records promptly.
• MCB-050 — Survivor Claims, Reviews & Representation
  Track each survivor claim separately and use the correct representative and review lane.
• MCB-051 — Estate, Beneficiary & Document Audit
  Reconcile wills, trusts, powers, insurance, beneficiary elections, titles, and military/VA records.
• MCB-052 — Annual Survivor Benefits Audit
  Recheck contact information, school status, remarriage/dependency effects, tax records, healthcare, and pending claims.

Source-of-truth rule

Each MCB record in the MilitaryClaims Source of Truth Registry cross-links the applicable Navigation Guide IDs, official Source IDs, Military Life Record chapters, Military Records families, verification date, and review cadence. Current operational statements belong in the Guide/source chain rather than being copied into this index and allowed to drift.