Assistance program
VA U.S. Paralympics Monthly Assistance Allowance Program
$16.5 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Veterans Affairs, Department of, Veterans Affairs, Department of
- Assistance
- Direct Payments With Unrestricted Use
- CFDA number
- 64.037
- What it does
- To promote the lifelong health and to motivate, encourage and sustain participation and competition in adaptive sports from the local level through elite levels among disabled Veterans and disabled members of the Armed Forces through partnerships with VA clinical personnel as well as national and community-based adaptive sports programs. To provide monthly assistance allowance to a Veteran with a disability as authorized by 38 U.S.C 322(d) for qualifying athletes, whether categorized as emerging or national team athletes.
- Who benefits
- To receive an allowance, a Veteran must submit a complete application identifying any dependents upon which a higher payable rate of allowance may be based; and the appropriate National Governing Body or equivalent Paralympic or Olympic entity must provide certification of the Veteran's participation in training or competition sponsored by the USOPC, applicable Paralympic or Olympic sport entity for U.S. Commonwealths or Territories, or the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), or residence at a USOPC training center, for a period for which payment is requested. The certification must specify whether the payment is due for training, competition, or residence, and the dates of the training, competition, or residence for which payment is due.
- Who applies
- To receive an allowance, a disabled Veteran must submit a complete application, as well as established training and competition plans and is responsible for turning in monthly and quarterly reports in order to continue receiving the monthly assistance allowance. The disability of the Veteran may be service-connected or non-service-connected if the veteran meets the minimum military standard or higher in his or her respective Paralympic or Olympic sport at a recognized competition level. The Veteran also must meet eligibility criteria established by the International Paralympic Committee for participants in Paralympic sports or by the International Olympic Committee for participants in Olympic sports.
- Authorized by
- Veterans Benefits Improvement Act of 2008
- Public Law 114-223
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.
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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- 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
An award count is the number of distinct awards with at least one action that year — each counted once, however many times it was amended.
- The colored bars
Every bar on this page splits by how the money moves:
Direct payments