# Contributions from Military Personnel, Veterans Educational Act (247300)

**Agency:** Veterans Affairs  
**Account:** Department of Veterans Affairs  
**Source document:** Veterans Affairs Programs · p. 78  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/budget/veterans-affairs/contributions-from-military-personnel-veterans-educational-act-247300  

> **Trust:** parsed from the agency Congressional Justification. Approximate, **not summable**, verify at the cited page.


## Veterans Affairs discretionary budget authority (OMB PBDB — authoritative)

FY2027 $144.90B, FY2026 $133.40B. This is the agency total, not a sum of the parsed lines.


## What this funds

Regular Appropriations, Collections, and DoW Transfers The following table captures advance and annual appropriations without any supplemental appropriations. It reflects rescissions, 2025 transfers to VHA and transfers from the Department of War (DoW), War Health Program, account 097-0130. The transfers from Medical Care to the DoW-VA Health Care Sharing Incentive Fund and Joint DoW-VA Medical Facility Demonstration Fund are not included in these tables. The only collections included are from the Medical Care Collections Fund (MCCF). Lastly, the Recurring Expense Transformational Funds balance is included, but technically is not an appropriation and is not scored as budget authority. It is, however, a significant budgetary resource authorized by Congress in FY 2016 in P.L. 114- /1 Discretionary Funding includes non-emergency discretionary appropriations provided in annual Appropriations Acts and in the /2 This line displays the estimated resources available in the Transformational Fund (TF) at the start of a FY. These resources do /3 Mandatory Funding includes mandatory appropriations provided in annual Appropriations Acts, PACT Act and the Fiscal /1 Section 707 of the PACT Act appropriated funds for major medical facility leases for 2023 and annually for subsequent years /2 The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, appropriated $5.0 billion to the TEF in 2023; the Fiscal Responsibility Act of Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025, provided an additional $6 billion for TEF in 2025. General Administration Regular Appropriations and TEF Note: The 2027 request for the Office Human Resources & Administration includes a one-time $90 million increase, which is the Department's required contribution to the Office of Personnel Management's Core Human Capital initiative in FY 2027. The VA manages base discretionary funds and mandatory TEF and PACT Act section 707 medical facilities funds in accordance with the legal parameters for both funding streams. The combined funds, as shown below, represent the total appropriated funds to support VA Grants for Construction of Veterans Cemeteries 692 350 861 511 -60.0%


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*HitchAI is an independent intelligence service, not affiliated with the U.S. government. Civilian line dollars are parsed from agency Congressional Justifications and are approximate.*