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By: FEDweek StaffThe White House’s $325.1 billion budget request for the Department of Veterans Affairs includes the following provisions for veterans, families, caregivers and survivors:
• $20.3 billion to care for veterans exposed to toxins, as specified in last year’s PACT Act legislation. Vietnam veterans who are sick because of exposure to the defoliant Agent Orange and those who are ailing because they served near burn pits during recent conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq would stand to benefit, as would their survivors.
• $16.6 billion for suicide prevention efforts. This would include free emergency care at VA and non-department facilities for veterans in crisis, and funding for local organizations that provide help to those contemplating suicide.
• $3.1 billion to help provide homeless veterans with shelter.
• $257 million for health-care programs for female veterans and their children. Included are infertility counseling, assisted reproductive technology, an elimination of copayments for contraceptives, and hiring full-time women veterans program managers.
• $4.1 billion to build new facilities and renovate aging ones.
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