Veteran Disability Vehicle Access

Current understanding

To be populated as evidence accumulates.

2025-01-04 — VETS Safe Travel Act: cross-connection with vets-safe-travel-disability-screening-access: Both extend accessibility benefits to service-disabled veterans with mobility-related impairments through targeted federal programs. (novelty: 3)
2025-05-20 — Automotive Support Services to Improve Safe Transportation Act of 2025: ASSIST Act of 2025 (introduced) would expand the VA’s statutory definition of medical services to authorize funding for additional medically necessary automobile adaptations — including ramp and kneeling systems, lowered floors, mobility device lifts, non-articulating trailers, and ingress/egress modifications — broadening the range of vehicle modifications VA can cover for eligible disabled veterans. (novelty: 2)