It is possible if these vets aren't in the VA system yet and are only getting federal assistance in the form of welfare, food stamps and housing vouchers.
The problem is, it takes a very long time for VA disability claims to get processed, even in the best of times, it's just a lengthy bureaucratic process, that's all.
Right now, with the government being shut down, that process is at a total halt but so are all federal grants to states for assistance, and the federal monies themselves.
Some veteran service organizations try to help vets by lining them up with welfare, housing assistance grants and food stamps until their VA disability claims come through, and here is where our buddy Plutonium might be feeling the pinch.
My suggestion, if your total number of tenants is something like a half dozen or so, is to contact the American Red Cross and see if they are able to come up with emergency funding to tide you over in the interim. You have nothing to lose for asking. The Red Cross can give the funds to the veterans and the veterans can pay you your rent.
Not guaranteeing it will work but the fact that it is wintertime may help your case, as the Red Cross isn't keen on allowing homeless people to be thrown out into the winter cold. Those are some of the people the Red Cross tries to help. It's what they do.
They might not give YOU the money directly but they probably will help the veterans.
My wife and I help disabled vets who aren't yet in the system, and we even refer to them as
"Veterans who haven't come in from the cold".
It's a widespread phenomenon, disabled vets who are either stuck in the mindset that asking for their claim is begging for charity or who are so proud that they believe that they shouldn't ask Uncle Sam for something Uncle Sam owes them, or thinking that Uncle Sam DOESN'T owe them to begin with.
Plutonium, if your tenants are disabled, either physically or because of PTSD or otherwise, they should all be seeking help from VA disablity law firms to help them process their disability claims.
It would make their lives a lot better.
In fact, for most of them, it would transform their lives entirely.