Details about VA Specially Adapted Housing Grant
The Specially Adapted Housing (SAH) program provides funds to veterans with extreme disabilities resulting from time spent in the service. Since this grant is for service-connected disabilities only, most older veterans are not eligible. However, there is no time limit to apply for this grant.
Therefore, some individuals may be eligible if they have a service-connected disability that has progressively worsened with age and has eventually required them to use a wheelchair.
The grant helps build, renovate, or purchase a modified home that is easy to live in for veterans with disabilities. Veterans can also apply for various available home improvement and repair grants, including SAH, SHA, and HISA grants. Learn more about VA Adaptive Housing for Veterans.
SAH Grant — Eligibility Requirments
The SAH grant is available to certain veterans and service members who are entitled to VA disability compensation due to:
• Loss or loss of use of both lower extremities, such as to prevent locomotion without the aid of braces, crutches, canes, a wheelchair, or
• Loss or loss of use of a lower extremity in conjunction with
(1) residues of organic disease or injury, or
(2) loss or loss of use of an upper extremity, affecting balance or propulsion to the point of preventing locomotion without the aid of braces, crutches, canes, a wheelchair, or
• Loss or loss of use of both upper limbs at or above the elbows, or
• Blindness in both eyes, plus loss or loss of use of a lower extremity, or
• A serious burn injury.
Maximum SAH Grant Amount
The maximum dollar amount allowed for SAH grants in the fiscal year 2013 is $64,960.
The maximum dollar amount allowed for the SHA grant in the fiscal year 2013 is $12,992.
Eligible veterans or service members can now receive up to three grants, and the total dollar amount of the grants must not exceed the maximum allowed.
How You Can Use Specially Adapted Housing (SAH) Grant Amount?
You may be eligible to use an SHA grant in one of the following ways:
Adapt an existing home of the Veteran or family member, if the Veteran lives there Adapt a home that the veteran or a family member intends to purchase if the veteran intends to live there Help a veteran buy a house already adapted to her needs.
How to Apply for VA SAH Grant Program?
You can apply by completing VA Form 26–4555, Veteran’s Application to Purchase a Specially Adapted Home or Special Home Adaptation Grant, and submitting it to your local VA Regional Loan Center.
You can also apply online; Visit the Veterans Portal at https://www.ebenefits.va.gov/ to register and submit an application for specially adapted housing benefits. Visit www.benefits.va.gov/homeloans/sah.asp for more information on SAH grants.
