Veterans Employment Pay for Success Program

This program furthers the Department's mission by establishing a program to provide grants to eligible recipients to assist veterans in highly rural areas through innovative transportation services to travel to Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Centers, and to otherwise assist in providing transportation services in connection with the provision of VA medical care to these veterans.

Applicants must be prepared to provide documentation of eligibility criteria and other support documentation described in the notice of funds availability (NOFA). This competition is open to public or nonprofit agencies, including institutions of higher learning as defined in 38 U.S.C. § 3119. Eligible nonprofit organizations include those defined in 2 C.F.R 200.70. Eligible applicants must serve low-income communities or address a specific issue area (e.g., employment or mental health challenges) in geographical areas that have the highest need in that issue area.

This competition is open to public or nonprofit agencies, including institutions of higher learning as defined in 38 U.S.C. § 3119. Eligible nonprofit organizations include those defined in 2 C.F.R 200.70. Eligible applicants must serve low-income communities or address a specific issue area (e.g., employment or mental health challenges) in geographical areas that have the highest need in that issue area.

The grant program provides funding to public or nonprofit agencies, including institutions of higher learning, to establish and support a Veterans Employment Pay for Success Project with a goal of improving specified employment outcomes for Veterans with a primary service connected disability rating of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Length-of-time limitations are established in the NOFA. If the VA determines that the Grant Recipient has presented a High-Quality PFS Project, the Grant Recipient will receive payments for administrative costs and outcomes payments electronically through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Payment Management System. Payment methods must minimize the time elapsing between the transfer of funds from the United States Treasury and the disbursement by the Grant Recipient.

The VA will publish, in the Federal Register, a NOFA, soliciting applications for the grant program and information on applications for requesting eligibility to receive grant funds. VA will establish scoring criteria and selection categories for grant applications. These criteria are weighted according to their probability of influencing an applicant's development of a successful program. Applications will only be accepted when received within the designated application submission timeframe and meeting the requirements described in a NOFA published in the Federal Register.

Scoring criteria and selection categories for the award of the grant will be provided in the NOFA. The criteria are weighted according to their probability of influencing an applicant's development of a successful Pay for Success program.

VA will specify in the NOFA, the process used to award the grant, where VA would score applications using a criteria and rank applications that receive at least the minimum amount of total points and points per category set forth in the NOFA. VA would then award grants for the highest ranked application for which funding is available.

VA will publish, in the Federal Register, a NOFA, that solicits applications for the grant program and information on application deadlines and requirements for submission.