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VA RIN: 2900-AS17 Publication ID: Spring 2025 
Title: Legal Services for Veterans – Legal Assistance for Access to VA Programs Grant Program 
Abstract:

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) amends its regulations to implement a new authority requiring VA to establish a pilot program to assess the feasibility of awarding grants to eligible entities to establish new legal assistance clinics or enhance existing legal assistance clinics and pro bono efforts to provide certain legal assistance to veterans and individuals who served in the Armed Forces. This final rule will provide grant program eligibility criteria, application requirements, scoring criteria, constraints on the allocation and use of grant funds, and other requirements necessary to implement the grant program.

 
Agency: Department of Veterans Affairs(VA)  Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant 
RIN Status: Previously published in the Unified Agenda Agenda Stage of Rulemaking: Final Rule Stage 
Major: No  Unfunded Mandates: No 
EO 14192 Designation: Not subject to, not significant 
CFR Citation: 38 CFR 81.0    38 CFR 81.5    38 CFR 79.5   
Legal Authority: 38 U.S.C. 101(2)   
Legal Deadline:  None
Timetable:
Action Date FR Cite
NPRM  10/02/2024  89 FR 80172   
NPRM Comment Period End  12/02/2024 
Final Action  12/00/2025 
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: No  Government Levels Affected: None 
Small Entities Affected: No  Federalism: No 
Included in the Regulatory Plan: No 
RIN Information URL: www.regulations.gov  
RIN Data Printed in the FR: No 
Agency Contact:
Madolyn Gingell
National Coordinator, Legal Services for Veterans, Veterans Justice Programs, Clinical Services
Department of Veterans Affairs
810 Vermont Ave. NW,
Washington, DC 20420
Phone:239 223-4681
Email: madolyn.gingell@va.gov