Nursing homes and assisted-living facilities can’t take the Economic Impact Payment for the first 12 months Since the payment doesn’t qualify as a resource for Medicaid purposes until 12 months after it was first received, nursing homes and assisted living facilities should not require residents to sign over their payment until this period has passed….
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 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…
