Veteran Affairs (VA) Health Care provides a broad range of health care benefits to your clients who are homeless veterans and who are enrolled in VA.

Benefits Your Client May Receive

VA offers many benefits specifically designed to help veterans and their families who are homeless live as self-sufficiently and independently as possible. These benefits include:

• Outreach to those veterans living on streets and in shelters who otherwise would not seek assistance
• Clinical assessment and referral to needed medical treatment for physical and psychiatric disorders, including substance abuse
• Long-term sheltered transitional assistance, case management, and rehabilitation
• Employment assistance and linkage with available income supports
• Supported permanent housing

Veterans who are homeless and enrolled in VA Health Care are also eligible for services such as:

• Hospital, outpatient medical, dental, pharmacy, and prosthetic services
• Domiciliary, nursing home, and community-based residential care
• Sexual trauma counseling
• Specialized health care for women veterans
• Health and rehabilitation programs
• Readjustment counseling
• Alcohol and drug dependency treatment
• Medical evaluation for military service exposure including Gulf War, Agent Orange, radiation, or other environmental hazards
• Death and burial benefits