Legal Services for Veterans - Legal Assistance for Access to VA Programs (LSV-A) Grant Program
Department Of Veterans Affairs
To award legal assistance grants to nonprofit and public entities that will provide certain legal assistance to Veterans and former service members of the U.S. Armed Forces, to help them gain access to VA benefits.
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Helps nonprofits and public organizations provide legal help to veterans. This assistance is for accessing VA benefits.
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What Is This Program?
What Benefits Are Offered?
Grant funding to public or nonprofit entities to provide civil legal services to eligible Veterans who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. Services include housing law, family law, income support, criminal defense (in matters symptomatic of homelessness), requests for discharge character upgrades, protective orders (domestic/intimate partner violence), access to health care, and employment law.
Who Is Eligible?
Demographics: women Veterans focus
Other Criteria: public or nonprofit private entities, capacity to effectively administer the grant, serve eligible Veterans experiencing or at risk of homelessness, proposing to directly provide four or more allowable legal services (for prioritization), organizations equitably distributed across geographic regions, including areas not being served by existing awards, or rural communities (for prioritization), demonstrated focus on providing legal services to women Veterans (for prioritization), grantees expected to use at least 10% of grant funds to provide legal services to women Veterans
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📋What Are the Application Steps & Timeline?
- 📝Steps to Apply
- Review the Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for eligibility and requirements.
- Prepare the application materials as outlined in the NOFO.
- Submit the application through the designated portal.
- 🌐Application Portal
- https://www.va.gov/homeless/lsv.asp
- 📤Submission Method
- online
- 📅Key Dates
- October 1, 2025Grant cycle begins
- 🔄Intake Type
- fixed-deadline
📄What Documents Are Required?
- ✅Required Documents
- SF-424 (Application for Federal Assistance)
- SF-424A (Budget Information - Non-Construction)
- SF-424B (Assurances)
- Project Narrative
- Budget Narrative
- Indirect cost rate agreement
- 📐Format Requirements
- PDF only, max 10MB
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💰What Expenses Are Eligible?
🤝Is Matching Funding Required?
📊What Are the Reporting Requirements?
- 🗓️Reporting Frequency
- quarterly
- 📑Reporting Requirements
- SF-425 Federal Financial Report
- performance report
- 🔍Audit Requirements
- OMB Uniform Guidance Single Audit if the recipient expends $750,000 or more in federal awards in a fiscal year
- 🗄️Record Retention Period
- 3 years post-final-report
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