The provisions of the Law on Amendments to the Law on County Ministries and Other Bodies of County Administration ("Official Gazette of the HNŽ", No. 4/07) determine the competence of the Ministries.
According to the aforementioned legal norm, the Ministry performs administrative and other professional tasks related to:
a) Determining the social and status issues of military invalids, families of fallen veterans and unemployed veterans and veterans of other liberation wars and participants in liberation movements and the protection of wartime peacetime military invalids;
b) Protection of family members of fallen, missing and deceased military invalids;
c) Administrative and financial supervision of the implementation of laws and other regulations in the field of protection of veterans and invalids in accordance with the Constitution and the law;
d) Management of organizational units in municipalities;
e) Gives an opinion on regulations prepared by other bodies, which relate to the social and status rights of these categories;
f) Construction, arrangement and maintenance of memorials, cemeteries of veterans and execution sites of innocent victims;
g) Keeping prescribed records within the competence of this Ministry;
h) Coordination of work with municipal administrative bodies competent for issues in the field of protection of veterans and disabled persons, as well as with the Federal Ministry for Veterans' Affairs, all in accordance with the application of positive legal regulations and the needs of the families of fallen veterans and disabled war veterans;
i) Continuous review and monitoring of the legal basis of social insurance for beneficiaries of the protection of disabled veterans;
j) Initiation of the adoption of regulations that uniformly regulate the rights in the field of protection of veterans and disabled persons, as well as the manner and measures for their realization;
k) Tasks and tasks related to conducting second-instance proceedings regarding the fundamental rights of beneficiaries of the protection of veterans and disabled persons;
l) Resolution of requests submitted in the form of petitions and through personal addresses of parties, as well as veterans' associations and organizations from municipal to county levels;
m) Activities related to providing health care, transportation for treatment and rehabilitation of the veteran population, and care for the procurement of prosthetics;
n) Tasks and tasks related to the implementation of an integral information system;
o) Preparation and performance of tasks related to the assessment of work capacity and physical impairment of members of the Federation of BiH Army in the 1st and 2nd levels in cooperation with the Institute for Work Capacity Assessment;
p) Drafting of laws and other regulations within its competence;
r) Performs other tasks assigned to it in accordance with the law.