Annual Budget Submission
President’s Budget Request
Fiscal Year 2018:
The 2018 Budget and 2019 Advance Appropriations requests for VA fulfill the President’s commitment to provide America’s Veterans, their families, and Survivors the care and benefits they have earned through their service.
The President’s 2018 Budget includes $186.5 billion in budget authority for VA in 2018. This includes $82.1 billion in discretionary resources and $104.3 billion in mandatory funding. The discretionary budget request represents an increase of $4.4 billion, or 5.8 percent, over the 2017 enacted level. VA’s 2019 Advance Appropriations request for discretionary Medical Care is $70.7 billion, an increase of $1.7 billion over the 2018 request. The 2019 Advance Appropriations request for mandatory Benefits is $107.7 billion, an increase of $7.0 billion above the 2018 request.
VA’s budget requests the resources necessary to increase Veteran access to services and benefits, sustains the progress made on reducing the disability claims backlog, and for continuing the Veteran homelessness program. The Budget supports the Departments operational transformation to provide Veterans, their families, and Survivors the highest quality services and benefits Veterans earned through their sacrifice and service to our Nation.
Current Fiscal Year Budget Submission
- View the Full Presidential 2018 Budget and Announcement
- VA News Release
- VA’s Budget Press Release
- Fast Facts — VA’s Budget Highlights
- FY 2018 Budget Rollout Briefing
VA’s budget is detailed in four volumes:
- Budget in Brief
- Volume I Supplemental Information and Appendices
- Volume II Medical Programs and Information Technology Programs
- Volume III Benefits and Burial Programs and Departmental Administration
- Volume IV Construction, Long Range Capital Plan and Appendix
Previous Fiscal Years (FY) Budget Submissions Archives
- FY 2017 Budget Submission
- FY 2016 Budget Submission
- FY 2015 Budget Submission
- FY 2014 Budget Submission
- FY 2013 Budget Submission
- FY 2012 Budget Submission
- FY 2011 Budget Submission
- FY 2010 Budget Submission
- FY 2009 Budget Submission
- FY 2008 Budget Submission
Annual Performance Plan and Report (APP&R)
This report presents the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) accomplishments and challenges in providing health care and benefits to Veterans and their eligible dependents in accordance with VA’s mission as provided by President Lincoln: “To care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan.” To accomplish this honored mission, we provide timely access to earned health care and benefits for millions of Veterans. This report documents our performance across the full array of VA programs.
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