LOS ANGELES (KABC) — Advocates for veterans have been fighting Department of Housing and Urban Development, also known as HUD, on the issue of disabled veterans health benefits counting as income.
This week, however, HUD changed that.
The federal agency said it would not count those benefits as income. That means about 4,000 homeless veterans in Los Angeles will be eligible for housing.
“We met last week in Washington D.C., a whole group of us, with members of Congress, and folks from the VA and the Biden administration, and when they see what it’s like for the veterans in Los Angeles, in and around the west L.A. VA, there’s no doubt that they had to take action,” said Long Lead Editor John Patrick Pullen.
His studio produced the documentary “Home of the Brave,” which looks into the plight of homeless veterans in L.A.
L.A. County Supervisor Kathryn Barger released a statement on the policy change, calling it “an overdue and much welcomed policy change.”