---
kind: "section"
citation: "38 C.F.R. § 21.6240"
title: "38"
number: "21.6240"
heading: "Medical treatment, care and services."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/38/21.6240"
---

# §21.6240. Medical treatment, care and services.

- (a) **General.** A participant in a vocational training program or receiving employment assistance shall be furnished medical treatment, care and services which VA determines are necessary to develop, carry out and complete the veteran's plan.
- (b) **Scope of services.** The services which may be furnished include the medical treatment, care and dental services described in [part 17](/cfr/38/part17.md) of this chapter. In addition, the following services may be authorized even if not included or described in [part 17](/cfr/38/part17.md):
  - (1) Prosthetic appliances, eyeglasses, and other corrective or assistive devices;
  - (2) Services to a veteran's family as necessary for the effective rehabilitation of the veteran;
  - (3) **Special services (including services related to blindness and deafness) including—**
    - (i) Language training, speech and voice correction, training in ambulation, and one-hand typewriting;
    - (ii) Orientation, adjustment, mobility and related services; and
    - (iii) **Telecommunications, sensory and other technical aids and devices.**
- (c) **Periods of eligibility.** A veteran is eligible for the services described in [paragraph (b)](#b) of this section during:
  - (1) Evaluation;
  - (2) Rehabilitation to the point employability;
  - (3) Employment services; and
  - (4) Other periods, to the extent that services are needed to begin or continue in any of the periods described in [paragraphs (c)(1) through (3)](#c-1..c-3) of this section. Such periods include, but are not limited to, those when services are needed to facilitate reentry into training following:
    - (i) Interruption; or
    - (ii) **Discontinuance because of illness or injury.**

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: Pub. L. 98-543, 38 U.S.C. 501 and chapter 15, sections specifically cited, unless otherwise noted.

### Source

Source: 53 FR 4397, Feb. 16, 1988, unless otherwise noted.