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GAO-09-637R 1 (2009-06-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaanns0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GA 0 Acountabilty I Integrity * Reliability United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 June 15, 2009 The Honorable Daniel K. Akaka Chairman The Honorable Richard Burr Ranking Member Committee on Veterans' Affairs United States Senate The Honorable Stephanie Herseth Sandlin Chairwoman The Honorable John Boozman Ranking Member Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity Committee on Veterans' Affairs House of Representatives Subject: Veterans Affairs: Implementation of Temporary Residence Adaptation Grants As of May 2009, approximately 34,000 service members had been wounded in action as part of Operation Enduring Freedom or Operation Iraqi Freedom. In response to concerns about the assistance that service members injured in combat receive when they transition back into civilian life, Congress has enacted several laws to improve the benefits available to veterans and service members, including the Veterans' Housing Opportunity and Benefits Improvement Act of 2006.1 This act authorized the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to expand its previously existing adaptive housing assistance grants to include eligible individuals temporarily living in a home owned by a family member, known as Temporary Residence Adaptation (TRA) grants. Section 101 of the Veterans' Housing Opportunity and Benefits Improvement Act of 2006 mandated us to submit to Congress an interim report by June 15, 2009, and a final report by June 15, 2011, on VA's implementation of TRA. This interim report describes the number and characteristics of TRA grants and grant recipients and provides information on VA's policies and processes for providing the grants. To address the mandate, we collected and analyzed VA data on TRA recipients; examined VA policies, procedures, and related documents; and interviewed VA and Department of Defense staff and representatives of selected veterans service organizations. For a detailed description of our scope and methodology, see enclosure I. We conducted our work between February 2009 and June 2009 in accordance with generally accepted government auditing standards. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain sufficient, appropriate evidence to provide a reasonable basis for our findings and conclusions based on GAO-09-637R Temporary Residence Adaptation Grants 1P.L. 109-233 (June 15, 2006).

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