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VA will pay for veterans to see non-VA doctors if they have to wait longer than 20 days or drive more than 30 minutes for primary or mental healthcare at a VA facility. For specialty care, they can see private doctors at VA expense if they have to wait longer than 28 days or drive more than an hour to see a VA provider. . . eligible veterans will always have the choice to receive internal VA care or to receive community care.

Lexington joins more than 65 other communities and three states Connecticut, Delaware and Virginia that have effectively ended Veteran homelessness, identifying every homeless Veteran by name and implementing systems to put them on the path to permanent housing. https://www.va.gov/opa/pressrel/pressrelease.cfm?id=5248

Veteran Employment Through Technology Education Courses (VET TEC) is designed to pair up eligible veterans with market leading training providers to learn skills in IT such as computer software, information science, media application, computer programming and data processing. Eligible veterans will have their classes and training paid for by the VA and will receive a monthly housing stipend during their training. https://www.blackhillsfox.com/content/news/508067681.html

"Community Care’s 'Choice' program was implemented hastily in 2014 as a Congressional response to a growing crisis in the VA of lengthy wait times for care first discovered at the Phoenix VA hospital. Since then, Choice has helped give many more veterans with the option of non-VA care in certain limited circumstances, but it’s also had many problems. Later this year, as a result of Congressional legislation passed in 2018, Community Care and specifically Choice will merge to become easier for veterans to understand and navigate."