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

Objective

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.

Who Can Apply

• Other

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.

Who Benefits

• Veteran/Service person/Reservist (including dependents
• Disabled (e.g. Deaf, Blind, Physically Disabled)

Disabled servicepersons and veterans.

Assistance Types

• Direct Payment with Unrestricted Use

Program Contact

vbaco_21cea@va.gov
(206) 965-3884