VA Press Room

Nearly 48,000 Veterans experiencing homelessness in fiscal year 2024 have been house

Monica Rivera, thanks very much for that kind introduction.

VA’s National Cemetery Administration awarded $44,553,338 in grants for the expansion and/or improvement of state Veterans’ cemeteries during fiscal year 2024.

VA awards $15.9 million in grants to fund adaptive sports, recreational activities, and equine therapy for Veterans and service members living with disabilities.

VA proposed establishing a first-of-its-kind grant program aimed at increasing access to VA programs and benefits.

VA will award more than $4.3 million in cooperative agreements to states and territories to help fund and provide technical assistance to suicide mortality review committees, which aim to identify and characterize local suicide deaths to better inform Veteran suicide prevention strategies.

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen and welcome to this month’s press conference. We’re excited. We have a lot of folks joining us today to provide you with a lot of great things that we’re doing across the enterprise. So I won’t speak too much longer, I’ll go ahead and get the Secretary up here and introduce our two guests, and then turn it over to the reporters for questions. So with that, I’ll turn it over to Secretary Denis McDonough.

Tele-emergency care is now available nationwide, a step that increases timely access to virtual emergency care options for Veterans enrolled in VA health care.

VA will conduct a scientific assessment to determine if there is a relationship between per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) exposure during military service and kidney cancer among Veterans.

Between between October 2023 and August 2024, VA housed 43,116 Veterans experiencing homelessness, surpassing its fiscal year 2024 goal to house 41,000 Veterans one month before the end of the fiscal year.