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Veterans Transportation Program

Program Information

Popular name

Veterans Transportation Program/Grants for Transportation in Highly Rural Areas

Program Number

64.035

Program objective

This program furthers the Department’s mission by establishing a program to provide grants to eligible recipients to assist veterans in highly rural areas through innovative transportation services to travel to Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Centers, and to otherwise assist in providing transportation services in connection with the provision of VA medical care to these veterans

Program expenditures, by FY (2023 - 2025)

This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.

For more information on each of these data sources, please see the About the data page.

Additional program information

  1. 2019

    Increased access to healthcare for over 22,000 Veteran passengers.

  2. 2022

    This grant provided approximately 18,000 trips to highly rural veterans last grant cycle.

  3. 2023

    HRTG completed 18,917 trips transporting 5,351 highly rural Veterans to their VA-authorized healthcare appointments.

Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):

For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.

OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.

Program details

Program types

Eligible beneficiaries

  • Veteran/Service person/Reservist (including dependents

Additional resources