Send Letter to DOL in Support of Homeless Veterans’ Reintegration Program
U.S. SENATE – U.S. Senators Steve Daines (R-Mont.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), and Catherine Cortez-Masto (D-Nevada) today sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Labor expressing concerns with a recent change in the Homeless Veterans’ Reintegration Program (HVRP). HVRP is a grant program that provides employment opportunities and career training to homeless veterans.
“Under the recently issued notice FOA-VETS-25-01, prospective grant applicants must maintain a physical location within 50 miles of any county they wish to serve. This follows the previously proposed “hub and spoke” model. Both Congress and the first Trump Administration considered and rejected this approach. Congress held public discussions regarding its implementation in 2019 and ultimately decided not to pursue the model. The hub-and-spoke model consistently fails rural veterans and creates unnecessary and arduous barriers for organizations that seek to assist them. It is simply not practical for veterans’ service organizations to maintain physical locations in all or even most counties in rural states like ours, which limits the areas they can serve.
… We hope that you and your Department will take corrective action and rescind this rule to ensure that rural veterans receive the service they deserve. Our nation owes a debt to our veterans, and we must ensure that the federal government is working to get them more support, not less,” the senators wrote in the letter.
Read the full letter HERE.
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