64.007: Blind Rehabilitation Centers
Alternate Name: Blind Center
Overview
Program Number
64.007
Status
Inactive
Last Modified
Sept. 12, 2017
Date Posted
July 16, 2008
Objective
To provide personal and social adjustment programs and medical or health-related services for eligible blinded veterans at selected VA Medical Centers maintaining blind rehabilitation centers.
Type of Assistance
Z - Salaries and Expenses
Applicant Eligibility
Any visually impaired or blind veteran who meets the following requirements: Must have enlisted in the armed forces before September 7, 1980. Veterans who enlisted in the armed forces after September 7, 1980, or entered on active duty after October 16, 1981, must have 24 continuous months of active duty service or completed the full period of time for which the individual was called or ordered to active duty. In either case the individual must have been discharged or released from active duty under conditions other than dishonorable. Must be enrolled in the VA health care system or have: A VA service-connected rating of 50 percent or greater, an adjudicated service-connected disability, or; been recently discharged from the military (within the past 12 months) for a disability the military determined was incurred or aggravated in the line of duty. When approved, the VA and at the Department of Defense request, active duty personnel may be transferred to a Blind Center.
Beneficiary Eligibility
All blinded veterans.
Related Programs
Grant Awards
Blind Rehabilitation Centers direct grants
Grant Opportunities