Automobiles and Adaptive Equipment for Certain Disabled Veterans and Members of the Armed Forces

Provide financial assistance to certain disabled servicepersons and Veterans toward the purchase price of an automobile or other conveyance and an additional amount for adaptive equipment deemed necessary to insure the eligible person will be able to

Provide financial assistance to certain disabled servicepersons and Veterans toward the purchase price of an automobile or other conveyance and an additional amount for adaptive equipment deemed necessary to insure the eligible person will be able to operate or make use of the automobile or other conveyance. Provide adaptive equipment only for certain other disabled Veterans.

Veterans with honorable service and servicepersons on active duty having a service-connected disability due to loss or permanent loss of use (LOU) in one or both feet, one or both hands, or a permanent impairment of vision of in both eyes to a prescribed degree or a severe burn injury defined as disability caused by deep partial thickness or full thickness burns resulting in scar formation that causes contractures and limits motion of one or more extremities or the trunk and precludes effective operation of an automobile or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Eligibility for an automobile grant may be based on functional as well as organic LOU of an extremity or blindness. Eligibility based on burn injury only applies to claims filed on or after October 1, 2011. For adaptive equipment only, eligibility also exists if there is service-connected ankylosis of one or both knees or one or both hips (see 38 U.S.C. 3902(b)(2) for more information). Servicepersons on active duty also qualify under the same criteria as Veterans.

Disabled servicepersons and veterans.

Assistance toward purchase of an automobile or other conveyance is a one-time payment only. Necessary adaptive equipment may be furnished, repaired, replaced, or reinstalled on a conveyance which may be purchased with assistance or any other conveyance subsequently or previously acquired. Adaptive equipment will be provided for no more than two conveyances during any four-year period unless one of those two vehicles becomes unavailable to the veteran.

Assistance toward purchase of an automobile or other conveyance is a one-time payment only. Necessary adaptive equipment may be furnished, repaired, replaced, or reinstalled on a conveyance which may be purchased with assistance or any other conveyance subsequently or previously acquired. Adaptive equipment will be provided for no more than two conveyances during any four-year period unless one of those two vehicles becomes unavailable to the veteran.

Assistance toward purchase of an automobile or other conveyance is a one-time payment only, made to the seller of the vehicle, in an amount not exceeding the amount specified in 38 U.S.C. 3902, and if the eligibility requirements are met. Exceptions to this one-time assistance are found in PL 112-154 and PL 117-333. Necessary adaptive equipment may be furnished, repaired, replaced, or reinstalled on a conveyance which may be purchased with assistance or any other conveyance subsequently or previously acquired. The adaptive equipment benefit may be paid more than once, and it may be paid to either the seller or the Veteran.

Awards are authorized at the Regional Office.

Not available.

In the event of a denial or disagreement, a notification letter will advise of applicable review/appeal options, associated filing requirements and time limits.