About Arizona Department of Veteran Services

Serving Arizona's Veterans as They Have Served Us

The Arizona Department of Veterans’ Services (ADVS) provides direct services to Veterans through the administration of 19 Veterans Benefits Offices throughout the state - helping Veterans connect with their VA benefits, two skilled-nursing Veterans' Home facilities in Phoenix and Tucson provide short and long-term care, the original Arizona Veterans' Memorial Cemetery in Sierra Vista, and two new cemeteries opened in 2016 in Northern Arizona at Camp Navajo and in Southern Arizona in Marana - north of Tucson.

In addition, the Arizona Department of Veterans’ Services provides critical, state-wide coordination and technical assistance to services and organizations serving Veterans. This includes activities such as coordinating services across private and public sectors in serving targeted populations such as Veterans experiencing homelessness, and special needs for the growing population of Women Veterans - many of whom are at-risk, as well as building community capacity to address Veteran employment and higher education.

Services provided by the Arizona Department of Veterans’ Services were instrumental in connecting Arizona’s over 600,000 Veterans with over $399 million in Compensation, Pension, Educational and Medical benefits, and grants from the United States Department of Veterans Affairs in FY 2017.

Agency Budget Request

Arizona law requires each state agency to post their annual budget request on the agency’s website. The FY2022 ADVS budget request document is online HERE. This document is a preliminary budget request by the Arizona Department of Veterans' Services for the upcoming fiscal year. The preliminary budget request does not necessarily reflect the contents of the Executive Budget Proposal or budget allocations determined during the legislative process.

Agency Strategic Plan

Please find a copy of the ADVS FY21 Strategic Plan online HERE.

Substantive Policy Statements

These substantive policy statements are advisory only. A substantive policy statement does not include internal procedural documents that only affect the internal procedures of the agency and does not impose additional requirements or penalties on regulated parties or include confidential information or rules made in accordance with the Arizona administrative procedure act. If you believe that this substantive policy statement does impose additional requirements or penalties on regulated parties you may petition the agency under section 41-1033, Arizona Revised Statutes, for a review of the statement.

A substantive policy state means a written expression which informs the general public or an agency's current approach to, or opinion of, the requirements of the federal or state constitution, federal or state statute, or administrative rule or regulation etc. As such, working with the Director and Deputy Director, we identified four statutes in need of clarification and created the four attached Substantive Policy Statements, with online document links below:

Substantive Policy Statement - Military Family Relief Fund
Substantive Policy Statement - Tuition Waivers
Substantive Policy Statement - Veteran Donation Fund

ADVS Tribal Consultation Policy

ADVS is committed to consulting with the 22 federally-recognized tribes in Arizona. Review the document online HERE.

Arizona Ombudsman Office

A new State law requires all public facing websites to have a link to the Arizona Ombudsman Office at: http://www.azoca.gov/.  The Ombudsman-Citizens Aide helps citizens to resolve ongoing issues with State Agencies.

Agency-related Arizona Administrative Code and Feedback

Send Stakeholder Input on Title 4 Chapter 40 of the Arizona Administrative Code to ADVS using THIS WEBFORM.