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…
Earlier this month Senator Marco Rubio,R-Fla, and most of the members of the Florida delegation in the House sent a letter demanding that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs immediately review the current Veterans Pension and Survivors Pension claims processing system after Florida (which has more qualifying Veterans than any other state) Veterans experienced significant…
Last week I passed along some of the common mistakes that our case managers have seen on VA pension applications. Since that blog post has such a positive response I have decided to take the next few weeks to share some of our case managers best advice for a smooth application process. Make a list…
