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VA RIN: 2900-AS17 Publication ID: 2026 
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 statutory authority requiring VA to award grants 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.  This program would provide needed legal services to veterans and individuals who served in the Armed Forces to ensure they receive the VA benefits to which they are entitled. 

 
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 part 81     (To search for a specific CFR, visit the Code of Federal Regulations.)
Legal Authority: 38 U.S.C. 501    Pub. L. 116-283, sec. 548   
Legal Deadline:  None
Timetable:
Action Date FR Cite
NPRM  10/02/2024  89 FR 80172   
NPRM Comment Period End  12/02/2024 
Final Action0  07/00/2026 
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: No  Government Levels Affected: None 
Federalism: No 
Included in the Regulatory Plan: No 
RIN Data Printed in the FR: No 
Agency Contact:
Madolyn Gingell
National Coordinator - Legal Services for Veterans
Department of Veterans Affairs
Washington, DC 20420
Phone:239 223-4681
Email: madolyn.gingell@va.gov