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Fifteen Thousand a Year, In Statute, For the Vans to Togus

The Coordinated Veterans Assistance Fund pays $15,000 annually to a veterans’ service organisation that has run a programme of providing transportation to veterans receiving medical services at the Veterans Administration Hospital at Togus, or at outreach centers of that hospital. The same fund pays $64,500 a year to each organisation maintaining a veteran service officer at Togus, and the director must report the distributions to the Legislature every February.

Verified August 23, 2026

What this benefit is

The Coordinated Veterans Assistance Fund pays $15,000 annually to a veterans’ service organisation that has run a programme of providing transportation to veterans receiving medical services at the Veterans Administration Hospital at Togus, or at outreach centers of that hospital. The same fund pays $64,500 a year to each organisation maintaining a veteran service officer at Togus, and the director must report the distributions to the Legislature every February.

What it's worth: A funded ride to Togus — $15,000 a year goes to the organisation that runs it

  • The money goes to the ORGANISATION, not to the veteran. Nothing in the section reimburses a veteran’s own mileage or fare.
  • The $15,000 is a fixed annual distribution written into the statute, not a per-ride figure and not indexed.
  • The distribution is conditioned on a five-year track record measured as of 1 January 2013, so it was drafted around the organisation already running the service rather than opening a competition.

Who is entitled to it

  • The transport is for the veteran receiving the medical services.
  • You are in this state.

Not sure whether that describes you?

Answer a few questions about this benefit specifically — we only ask what this one actually depends on, and we stop as soon as we know.

How to claim it

  1. 1Ask the bureau which organisation currently receives the transportation distribution, and book the ride with that organisation directly. The bureau’s director makes the distribution; the organisation runs the vans.
  2. 2The destination in the statute is specific: the Veterans Administration Hospital at Togus, or OUTREACH CENTERS of the veterans hospital. A trip to a non-VA provider is outside what this money funds.
  3. 3Do not go looking for mileage reimbursement in this section — there is none. If you are driving yourself, ask the VA facility’s own travel office about federal beneficiary travel, which is a separate federal entitlement.
  4. 4The same fund pays $64,500 annually to each organisation that has funded and maintained a veteran service officer at Togus, so the person who can help with a claim is funded to be in the same building you are travelling to. Ask for them while you are there.
  5. 5If the fund runs short, the officer money is shared rather than cut off — where revenues are insufficient the director divides the available funds equally between the organisations. The transport line carries no such rule.
  6. 6The remainder of the fund is split by formula and is worth knowing about: 68 percent to the Maine Veterans Memorial Cemetery System Care Fund, 20 percent to organisations coordinating an annual event providing warm clothing and personal items to homeless veterans, and 12 percent to purchase flags for graves at veterans’ cemeteries.
  7. 7If the service disappears, there is a paper trail to point at: the director must report annually by 15 February on the distribution of these funds, including information from the organisations that received them, to the Legislature’s veterans affairs committee.
Form
No application by the veteran — book through the veterans’ service organisation running the transport
File with
The veterans’ service organisation receiving the distribution, with the Bureau of Veterans’ Services behind it
No renewal
Once granted it does not need renewing.
CorrectionThis is the only state-funded route to VA medical care found in this state, and it is easy to overstate. It funds an organisation’s programme; it does not create an entitlement to a ride, and a veteran refused a seat has no claim under the section.
Worth knowingThe eligibility condition on the transport distribution is historical — a programme maintained for the previous five years consecutively AS OF 1 January 2013. A newer organisation running vans to Togus cannot qualify for this line however good its service.

Sources

Why only one source type: Read from the Revisor’s own chapter 7 PDF of Title 37-B in full. The section names the sum, the destination, the recipient class and the reporting duty in terms.

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