Assistance program
Veterinary Medicine Loan Repayment Program
$18.6 Million committed in FY2024–FY2026
- Agency
- National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Agriculture, Department of
- Assistance
- Direct Payments for Specified Use
- CFDA number
- 10.313
- What it does
- The program responds to the current shortage of large animal veterinarians in rural areas by encouraging veterinarians, through loan repayment, to provide veterinary service in designated shortage areas. To carry out a program of entering into agreements with veterinarians under which the Secretary shall pay specified amounts of the principal and interest of qualifying educational loans of the veterinarians.
- Who benefits
- The Secretary may enter into agreements with veterinarians under which the veterinarians agree to provide, for a period of time as determined by the Secretary and specified in the agreement, veterinary services in veterinarian shortage situations.
- Who applies
- The Secretary may enter into agreements with veterinarians under which the veterinarians agree to provide, for a period of time as determined by the Secretary and specified in the agreement, veterinary services in veterinarian shortage situations.
- Authorized by
- 7 U.S.C. § 3151a
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
How the money flows
Committed dollars by how this program's money is paid out.
Direct payments
$6.9M
37%
Grants
$11.7M
63%
Top recipients
By dollars committed.
How to read these numbers
- Committed through this program
Money committed under this assistance listing (its CFDA program), counted in the year each action happened.
- How it's paid
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- Awards, counted once
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- The colored bars
Every bar on this page splits by how the money moves:
Direct payments