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Subcommittee hears safety, scope and fraud concerns on auto-adaptive, flight training and independent-study bills
Summary
The panel considered the ASSIST Act (auto-adaptive equipment), the Safe Veterans Act (flight training access under VR&E), and concerns about opening GI Bill funds to unaccredited independent-study programs; VA raised safety and cost concerns about non‑articulating trailers.
Witnesses and VA officials discussed several bills that would change VA benefits related to vehicle adaptations, flight training and the use of GI Bill funds for nontraditional education.
The ASSIST Act (Automotive Support Services to Improve Safe Transportation Act) would clarify and expand vehicle-adaptive-equipment coverage in VA’s automobile adaptive equipment (AAE) program. VA expressed broad support for medically necessary automobile adaptations but raised safety and cost concerns about explicitly including non‑articulating trailers as a covered conveyance. ‘‘The National Highway Traffic…
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