---
kind: "section"
citation: "38 U.S.C. § 2043"
title: "38"
title_heading: "Veterans’ Benefits"
number: "2043"
heading: "Domiciliary care programs"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/38/2043"
units:
  - "Part II — General Benefits"
  - "Chapter 20 — Benefits for Homeless Veterans"
  - "Subchapter V — Housing Assistance"
---

# §2043. Domiciliary care programs

- (a) **Authority.—** The [Secretary](/usc/38/101.md?p=1) may establish up to 10 programs under [section 1710(b) of this title](/usc/38/1710.md?p=b) (in addition to any program that is established as of the date of the enactment of this section) to provide domiciliary services under such section to [homeless veterans](/usc/38/2002.md?p=a-1).
- (b) **Enhancement of Capacity of Domiciliary Care Programs for Female Veterans.—** The [Secretary](/usc/38/101.md?p=1) shall take appropriate actions to ensure that the [domiciliary care](/usc/38/1701.md?p=7) programs of the [Department](/usc/38/101.md?p=1) are adequate, with respect to capacity and with respect to safety, to meet the needs of [veterans](/usc/38/1101.md?p=1) who are women.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 107–95, § 5(a)(1), Dec. 21, 2001, 115 Stat. 913; amended Pub. L. 110–387, title VI, § 603, Oct. 10, 2008, 122 Stat. 4132.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The date of the enactment of this section, referred to in subsec. (a), is the date of enactment of Pub. L. 107–95, which was approved Dec. 21, 2001.

### Amendments

2008—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 110–387 amended subsec. (b) generally. Prior to amendment, text read as follows: “There are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary $5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2003 and 2004 to establish the programs referred to in subsection (a).”