Berta, Vike, Anyone Who Knows-adapted Housing Grants

[Guest rickb54]

I received a call from my new Vocational Rehabilitation counselor today. I am enrolled in an independant living service program.

I already used my adapted housing grant In Texas.

Because I moved from Texas to Georgia I need my new home adapted. The va will adapted homes under the independant living service program. I have been dealing with the Augusta Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation office since Feb 2006. The counselor told me that she does not know how to do an ILSP. She told me I could not get estimates myself. It took 10 months for her to get one estimate to adapt my home. I wrote a letter to the main office in Alanta Georgia three months ago requesting a new counselor.

Today a new counselor calls and says I need to get two estimates more. He also advise me to apply for the adapted housing grant again. I told him that adapted housing grant is a one time deal. He told me the rules have changed. I said only to the extent that if the 50K was not all used up, that now a veteran can use the amount he did not use, in my case the whole 50K was used, because a contractor ran off with 16K. Any way he tells me I am wrong that I can apply again.

What say you guys? Have you seen or heard of anything that states a adapted grant can be awarded more than once. I think he is wrong, but he wants me to apply again... I do not want to waste the time of the regional office. He told me that I have to explore every va resourse to get my home adapted. I thought it was his job to know the avenues, and I though it was his job to get this information for me, like where the hell do I get this information if not my counselor.

Anyway now I degress.....

Has there been a change to the adapted housing grant program that allows more than one grant for a veteran?

Edited December 1, 2006 by rickb54

[Berta]

Rick- I can't access the VA web site- as they have info on Special Adaptive grants-but the new edition of the VBM does not mention any change at all in the regs for this type of grant.

I wonder if General COunsel has a recent pres op that might have changed this- cant get in there either-

bad weather up here----

[Guest rickb54]

I found what I needed to know... A veteran can get up to three grants now but together they cannot exceed $50,000.

attached is a copy of the new rules:

Circular_26_06_7_Specially_adapted_housing.pdf

This is just another example of veteran affairs counselors not knowing all the facts..

Edited December 2, 2006 by rickb54