Tell staff at your nearest Virginia Works office that you are a veteran or an eligible spouse when you first ask for a service, and show your proof of status.

• You are using a Virginia Works program funded wholly or partly by the U.S. Department of Labor
• You served on active duty other than for training and received a discharge other than dishonorable, or you are the spouse or unremarried surviving spouse of a veteran who died of a service-connected disability, a veteran with a total service-connected disability rating from the VA, a veteran who died while such a disability existed, or a service member listed for 90 days or more as missing in action, captured in the line of duty by a hostile force, or forcibly detained or interned in the line of duty by a foreign government or power