Many Veterans wonder about the HISA grant and when they can use it. Below is a start for your research. ultimately you will need to meet with your VA provider and have them submit a consult on your behalf.

Home Improvements/Structural Alterations (HISA)

The VA Home Improvements and Structural Alterations Grant (HISA) provides financial assistance to disabled veterans with service-connected medical conditions (and sometimes non-service-connected conditions) who require modifications to their homes, whether owned or rented by the veteran.

This benefit provides medically necessary improvements and structural alterations to Veterans/Servicemembers’ primary residence for the following purposes:

• Allowing entrance to or exit from the primary residence
• Use of essential lavatory and sanitary facilities (e.g. roll in showers)
• Allowing accessibility to kitchen or bathroom sinks or counters (e.g. lowering counters/sinks)
• Improving entrance paths or driveways in immediate area of the home to facilitate access to the home through construction of permanent ramping
• Improving plumbing or electrical systems made necessary due to installation of home medical equipment

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HISA Benefit Amounts

Lifetime benefit for Veterans and Servicemembers.

$6,800 will be approved to:

• Address a service-connected disability
• Address a compensable disability treated “as if” is a service-connected disability and for which the Veteran entitled to medical services under 38 USC 1710(a)(2)(c) (e.g., disability acquired through treatment or vocational rehabilitation provided by VA)
• Address a non-service- connected disability, if the beneficiary has a service-connected disability rated at least 50 percent disability (no combining or combination of disability percentages is allowed).

$2,000 will be approved to:

• Address a disability that is not covered above

Note: All HISA projects must be medically justified for the service-connected disability and/or non-service-connected disability. Please contact your local Prosthetic and Sensory Aids Service to determine your available lifetime HISA benefits

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