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Find out how to access VA mental health services for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), psychological effects of military sexual trauma (MST), depression, grief, anxiety, and other needs. You can use some services even if you’re not enrolled in VA health care.

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Veterans Affairs Servicing Purchase program: Starting May 31, 2024, if you have a VA-guaranteed loan, you may be able to participate in the Veterans Affairs Servicing Purchase (VASP) program. Through VASP, VA buys the modified loan through your loan servicer. Your servicer must first have tried all other options to help you keep your home.Learn more about VASPExtra time to arrange a private sale: If you need to sell your home, this plan lets you delay a foreclosure so you have time to sell.Short sale: If you owe more money than your house is worth, your servicer might agree to a short sale. This means the servicer will accept the total proceeds from the home sale (even if it’s less than the full amount you owe on the mortgage) as full payment of the debt you owe. Note: This option could result in a loss or reduction in your future home loan benefit. Contact a VA loan technician at 877-827-3702 for more details.Deed in lieu of foreclosure: This plan lets you avoid the foreclosure process by signing over the deed to the home to your servicer. The home will then belong to the servicer. Note: This option could result in a loss or reduction in your future home loan benefit. Contact a VA loan technician at 877-827-3702 for more details.

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If your loan closed before January 1, 1990, and we have to pay back the amount of your loan to the servicer, you may need to pay this amount back to the government. If you can’t repay a VA debt, you may be able to get a waiver. Learn more about waivers for VA debtIf your loan closed on or after January 1, 1990, and we have to pay back the amount of your loan to the servicer, you’ll need to pay this amount back to the government if we find evidence of fraud, misrepresentation, or bad faith on your part.

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History of VA and its administrationsWhat is the history of the Department of Veteran Affairs? The origin story of the modern VA includes several previous entities and names dating as far back as the American colonies. To help understand that legacy, this site serves as the centralized digital location for VA’s history with the focus of educating about the special relationship between the nation and its Veterans, including how that has impacted society. Here there are various stories and exhibits that examine the individuals, institutions and innovations of the last 250 years. There have been multiple agencies that have provided the service and benefits to America’s Veterans, including the Bureau of Pensions, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, National Cemetery System, Bureau of War Risk Insurance, Veterans Bureau, and Veterans Administration, all of which are referenced on the preceding pages.
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