Bill’s pension was filled with an effective date of July 1st, 2019. He has been married for 45 years. He passed away October 5th. How will his passing affect his back pay and his wife’s pension going forward? He is due pension $$ for July, August and September. In October he would have been paid for…
During the last House Committee on Veteran Affair’s hearing on VA Secretary Wilkie’s Covid-19 response, the committee member’s asked about responses to illnesses caused by agent orange. During this hearing Secretary Wilkie said that 4 previous presumptive illnesses will be left off of the list of covered illnesses including bladder cancer, hypertension, hypothyroidism and Parkinson…
According to the VA there are 15,200,860 Veterans in the United States. 9.2 million of them are over the age of 65. We don’t often think of Gulf War Veterans when talking about aid & attendance pension, but according to the National Center for Veteran Analysis and Statistics, of the 8,051,480 Gulf War Veterans 18%…
The Modernization Act promised to make the access to medical records easier for Veterans, representatives, and physicians by turning all records over to an electronic health record system. During last weeks Senate VA Committee meeting Senator Tester showed concern for the completion of and the money spent to complete the EHR by the end of 2020….
This is my final week in our series about the VA pension application process. Have a designated person that checks your application status EVERY MONTH. Applications get lost, have been known to show the wrong date of submission, and a slew of other reasons the application has been held up. If they say that your…
The exams backlog currently sits at 119,000 cases, up from 69,000 in November 2019. The news came just a day after lawmakers and veterans advocates expressed concern that department leadership hasn’t done enough to inform veterans about their plans to handle benefits cases have stalled in recent months, as in-person exams were banned in almost all…
