This paper will analyze the system of Croatian war veterans exercising their rights through periods from 1992. to the present in the form of exercising their right to one-time financial assistance and benefits, i.e., financial compensation for unemployed Croatian war veterans. In order to chronologically present the manner of exercising these rights, all laws, regulations and rule books will be analyzed together with their amendments that have been applied so far and are currently in force. Through chapters of this paper, the criteria and procedures that have been implemented for the purpose of exercising the stated rights will be presented for each relevant regulation. One-time financial assistance was regulated by four regulations, three rule books and two laws. The first regulation on the exercise of the right to one-time financial assistance was a regulation of the Government of the Republic of Croatia, and only later these rights began to be regulated by laws, while further regulations and rule books were used to elaborate procedures for exercising rights and determining the necessary conditions. The first regulation on one-time financial assistance differs from later versions of the regulations because it was adopted during the Homeland War. It served as a basis for further regulation of rights, and with the development of the practice of legal regulation it created a common concept of introducing or removing conditions and obstacles that over time became stricter regarding the exercise of beneficiaries’rights. In order to exercise their rights to benefits, which later changed its name to a financial compensation for unemployed Croatian war veterans of the Homeland War, six laws and two rule books have been passed so far. The first regulation was the Law on the Protection of Military and Civilian Invalids, which also regulated the rights arising from World War II. By taking appropriate provisions from this law, later laws gradually moved to regulating the rights of beneficiaries related to the Homeland War, so the second law will regulate the concept of Croatian veteran and war invalid. The third law will show how the transition to beneficiaries related only to the Homeland War was gradually transferred, leaving the beneficiaries of the family disability allowance from World War II. to the first law. It was not until the fourth law that it was prescribed that Croatian veterans of the Homeland War also had the right to benefits, and it began to regulate the rights of Croatian veterans and members of their families together.