38 U.S.C. § 2065 — Annual report on assistance to homeless veterans

(a) Annual report. By June 15 of each year, the Secretary^* must send the Senate and House Committees on Veterans’ Affairs a report about the Department’s activities during the preceding calendar year under programs in this chapter and other Department^* programs that provide assistance to homeless veterans. (b) General contents of report. Each report must include: (1) the number of homeless veterans who received assistance under those programs; (2) the Department’s cost of providing that assistance; (3) the Secretary’s evaluation of how effective the Department’s programs are in assisting homeless veterans, including (A) residential work-therapy programs, (B) programs that combine outreach, community-based residential treatment, and case management, and (C) contract-care programs for alcohol and drug-dependence or use disabilities; (4) the Secretary’s evaluation of programs established by recipients of grants under section 2011 of this title, and a description of those recipients’ experience applying for and receiving grants from the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to serve mainly homeless veterans; (5) information about the Secretary’s efforts to coordinate housing and services for homeless veterans with other Federal departments and agencies, including (A) Defense, (B) Health and Human Services, (C) Housing and Urban Development, (D) Justice, (E) Labor, (F) the Interagency Council on Homelessness, (G) the Social Security Administration, and (H) any other Federal department or agency with which the Secretary coordinates that housing and those services; and (6) any other information about those programs and assistance that the Secretary considers appropriate. (c) Health Care Contents of Report. For Department programs addressing homeless veterans’ health-care needs, each report must include: (1) information about spending, costs, and workload under the Health Care for Homeless Veterans program (HCHV); (2) information about veterans contacted through that program; (3) information about treatment results under it; (4) information about supported-housing programs; (5) information about the Department’s grant and per-diem provider program under subchapter II of this chapter; (6) the findings and conclusions of medical-needs assessments conducted under section 2034(b) of this title; and (7) other information the Secretary considers relevant to assessing those programs. (d) Benefits Content of Report. For the Veterans Benefits Administration’s processing of homeless veterans’ benefit claims during the preceding year, each report must include: (1) information about the costs, spending, and workload of claims evaluators; (2) information about homeless veterans filing benefit claims; (3) information about efforts to speed up processing of those claims; and (4) other information the Secretary considers relevant to assessing the programs and activities.