Assistance program
Jobs for Veterans State Grants
$1.5 Billion committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Veterans Employment and Training Services, Labor, Department of
- Assistance
- Formula Grants
- CFDA number
- 17.801
- What it does
- The Jobs for Veterans State Grants (JVSG) program provides federal funding through a formula grant to state agencies in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the territories of Guam, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Recipients use this funding to hire dedicated staff that provide individualized career and training-related services to eligible veterans and eligible persons with employment barriers, and that assist employers in filling their workforce needs with job-seeking veterans.
- Who benefits
- Eligible veterans (per 38 USC 4211(4) and eligible persons (per 38 USC 4101(5) who would like one-on-one career counseling or group training and are experiencing any of the following employment barriers: • A disability: has a US Department of Veterans Affairs service-connected disability rating of at least 10%, released from service due to a disability, or has disability per the Americans with Disabilities Act • Vietnam-era veteran: active duty between 8/5/64-5/7/75, or served in the Republic of Vietnam between 11/1/55-5/7/75 • Recently separated veteran: released from active duty within the last three years • Referred for employment services by a representative of the US Department of Veterans Affairs • Experiencing homelessness: will soon lose, currently lacks, and/or cannot obtain fixed, regular, adequate, permanent housing; or attempting to flee domestic violence • Subjected to any stage of the criminal justice process • Between 18-24 years of age • Lacks high school diploma or equivalent • Unemployed and available to work • Receiving (or has received in last 6 months) public assistance through SNAP, TANF, SSI, or state/local income-based program • Total family income does not exceed the poverty line or 70% of the lower living standard income level, whichever is higher • Head of a single-parent household Beneficiaries may also include: • Transitioning service members who are within 1 year of separation or 2 years of retirement, have participated in any part of the Transition Assistance Program • Wounded, ill, or injured service members who are receiving treatment at a Soldier Recovery Unit • A spouse or other family caregiver of such wounded, ill, or injured service members.
- Who applies
- The state administrative entity designated by each Governor may apply for this grant. In most cases, this is the state workforce agency. Entities who are eligible to apply for this assistance are notified directly when it is time for them to apply for annual funding. This assistance is not available for individuals or non-governmental organizations. To access services available under this grant, visit our website at www.dol.gov/agencies/vets/veterans/findajob.
- Authorized by
- Title 38, United States Code, Section 4102A (b) 5 (38 U.S.C. §4102A(b)5) authorizes funds provided to each state to staff and support DVOP specialists, LVER staff, and the reasonable costs associated with such representatives, including travel to the National Veterans’ Employm…
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.
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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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- Some recipients aren't itemized
For entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare, the government reports one aggregate instead of naming tens of millions of people, so the recipient roster isn't part of the public record.
- Awards, counted once
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- The colored bars
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Direct payments