Iowa / State / Iowa Administrative Bulletin, August 5, 2026

ARC 0470D, new 801 Iowa Admin. Code ch 11 Rewrote the injured veterans grant rules, adding a home-of-record restriction and a two-year deadline that starts on January 1, 2027

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Adopted 2026-07-15 · Takes effect 2026-09-09

The Iowa Department of Veterans Affairs rescinded 801 Iowa Administrative Code chapter 11 and adopted a new chapter of the same title, adopted July 15, 2026 and effective September 9, 2026. Two provisions are new and neither appears in Iowa Code section 35A.14. Rule 11.1(3), after setting the $2,500 increments at 30, 60 and 90 day intervals while the veteran remains hospitalized or receiving military-authorized medical care or rehabilitation, adds: "Qualifying treatment or services must be provided in a location that is not the veteran’s home of record", so a veteran who continues authorized rehabilitation at home stops accruing increments. Rule 11.2(5) provides that "For any qualifying injury sustained on or after January 1, 2027, the department must receive an initial application within two years of the date of injury", where no deadline previously existed. Rule 11.1(4) confirms that eligibility survives discharge from the military while treatment continues, and rule 11.2(6) requires a written decision within thirty days. Tracked and flagged because the deadline is prospective and will catch veterans injured from New Year’s Day 2027 who have no reason to know of it; because the home-of-record restriction is a rule-only condition on a statutory benefit; and because the department’s own web page describes the grant as limited to an injury in a hazardous area or in service drawing combat or hazardous duty pay, a condition that appears in neither the statute nor these rules. The statute’s definition of severity, "as defined in the most recently published United States department of defense joint publication 1-02", points at a designation the Department of Defense discontinued; the rules do not use those terms at all.