Injured Veterans Grant — $2,500 Every Thirty Days, Up to $10,000, So Family Can Be There
A veteran seriously or very seriously injured in the line of duty after 11 September 2001 can receive $2,500 at a time, at thirty-day intervals, up to $10,000 — paid so that family members can be with them during recovery.
Verified August 22, 2026
What this benefit is
A veteran seriously or very seriously injured in the line of duty after 11 September 2001 can receive $2,500 at a time, at thirty-day intervals, up to $10,000 — paid so that family members can be with them during recovery.
What it's worth: $2,500 per thirty-day interval, to a maximum of $10,000 per qualifying injury
- The maximum is per injury, not per lifetime. A subsequent unrelated injury that meets the same tests is treated as an initial injury for eligibility and allotment, so the $10,000 ceiling resets.
- Payment continues at thirty-day intervals only while the veteran remains hospitalised or is receiving military-authorised medical care or rehabilitation, so a short recovery draws less than the maximum.
Who is entitled to it
- You served.
- Your discharge is under honorable conditions.
- You are in this state.
Not sure whether that describes you?
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How to claim it
- 1The gate is one of two proofs, not a rating: either evacuation from the operational theatre where the injury happened to a military hospital, or an injury requiring at least thirty CONSECUTIVE days of hospitalisation at a military hospital.
- 2The injury must be "seriously injured" or "very seriously injured" as the Defense Department’s joint publication 1-02 defines those terms. That is a military casualty classification, not a VA disability percentage, so a veteran with no VA rating at all can still be inside it.
- 3Line of duty is judged on the circumstances known at the time of evacuation, which protects a claim from a later reclassification.
- 4After the first payment, keep sending proof of continued care every thirty days. The statute accepts any reasonably reliable documentation showing continued medical or rehabilitative care for the qualifying injury.
- 5A non-resident is eligible on a narrow route: a member of a national guard unit located in this state before alert for mobilisation, injured while serving in it, and not eligible for a similar grant elsewhere.
- 6Old injuries are still payable. An injury between 11 September 2001 and 8 May 2006 qualifies on a showing that it would have been payable had it happened later, and the same retrospective rule covers subsequent unrelated injuries before 30 March 2011.
- Form
- Injured veterans grant application
- File with
- Iowa Department of Veterans Affairs
- Documents you will need
- dd214
- Periodic recertification
- Confirmed at intervals rather than annually.
Sources
- authority · statuteIowa Code §35A.14 — Injured veterans grant program
- operating · published policyIowa Department of Veterans Affairs — Injured Veterans Grant
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