The Armed Forces Retirement Home

Abstract

Since the late 1700s, Congress has established numerous federal programs to provide housing, housing assistance, and health care support to certain wounded, ill, or injured servicemembers, military retirees, and other veterans. Some of those programs included the establishment of military asylums for temporarily or permanently disabled servicemembers. Most military asylums have since closed or been transferred to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) or state agencies that separately or jointly administer a variety of residential social support programs. Congress also later established the Armed Forces Retirement Home (AFRH) as the only federal military retirement community. In so doing, AFRH absorbed two previously existing military asylums, later converted to Department of Defense-affiliated retirement homes. AFRH now provides residential care to military retirees and certain other veterans.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 20, 2020
Accession Number
AD1131482

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  • Bryce H. Mendez

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  • Congressional Research Service

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  • United States
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