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The maximum annual Aid & Attendance pension amount for a Wartime Veteran with no dependents is $1,912
per month, with one dependent is $2,266, and the maximum annual Aid & Attendance pension amount for a Surviving
Spouse of a Wartime Veteran is $1,230 per month.
Veteran / Surviving Spouse (applicant) must be 65 or officially disabled (service connection not required).
• Veteran must be “wartime” & served 90 days & at least 1 day (not necessarily in combat) during: World War II
Dec 7, 1941 – Dec 31, 1946 / Korean War Jun 27, 1950 - Jan 31, 1955 / Vietnam War Aug 5, 1964 - May 7, 1975
(or Feb 28, 1961 – May 7, 1975 for Veterans who served in Vietnam) / Gulf War Aug 2, 1990 – Undetermined.
• Veteran cannot have been dishonorably discharged.
• Surviving Spouse must have been living with the veteran at the time of their death and must be single.
• The applicant must require help with the activities of daily living.
Veteran A&A, as it is sometimes abbreviated, is only for veterans and the spouses of deceased veterans who need assistance with the Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) or who have dementia. The easiest way to apply is to make an appointment with your county's Veteran Service Officer. Look it up on your county's website. The VSO will help you determine if the vet or the spouse is eligible and what documents you will need to supply to verify eligibility. Without the VSO's help this can turn into a paperwork hassle with all the back and forth taking months. You will need a particular form that must be filled out by the vet's or spouse's doctor attesting to their need for assistance with the ADLs, if claiming for dementia you will need for them to take the MMSE or MOCA at their doctor's office to verify their cognitive impairment. The idea of this benefit is that it's supposed to help defray the costs of a home health aide, or to assist with paying for an Assisted Living Facility.
What a kind thing for you to do. I didn't know a lot of what you posted. Thank you.
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This article brings up the money that's available but going unused in poverty assistance programs. Many programs aren't well understood, or the process to apply is difficult for some. It's a fairly quick read and might bring up some programs that those living on low-income might find helpful.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/pers...528039c&ei=214
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It almost sounds too far-fetched to be true. But according to research by the National Council on Aging (NCOA) millions of adults aged 65 and older struggle to pay for basic living expenses because…they aren’t enrolled in programs they actually qualify for.
The result, NCOA has found, is that millions of people are not able to take advantage of some $30 billion a year in benefits that could help them cover the cost of food, utilities, medical care, prescriptions and more.
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Programs such as SNAP, Extra Help, Medicare Savings Programs and SSI could help. Check out how to apply with your local area Council (or Agency) on Aging.
There will be a series of news articles about how horrid healthcare is at one VA hospital. People get upset, legislators respond to letters, and more money to thrown at that one hospital. The previous managers are either promoted to other agencies, or else they get pensions. The new manager makes nice speeches and brings in a new staff of bureaucrats. There seems to be a 4 or 5 year turnaround period and then that one hospital gets rave reviews, WooHoo.
While in another state there is a series of news articles about how horrid healthcare is at that VA hospital. People get upset, legislators respond to letters, and more money to thrown at that one hospital. The previous managers are either promoted to other agencies, or else they get pensions. The new manager makes nice speeches and brings in a new staff of bureaucrats. after 4 or 5 years that one hospital gets rave reviews, WooHoo.
While in another state, ...
At any one time, somewhere there is a VA hospital with patients being ignored with festering bedsores and untreated symptoms. At the same time, somewhere else there is a VA hospital undergoing $Billion renovations and new staffing.
If you can find one 'good' VA hospital, come back in ten years and see how they are doing.
I am not saying that the Birmingham Alabama VA hospital is cursed, while the Wilmington hospital is blessed. Which hospital is 'good' and which ones are 'bad' rotate.
The VA should have never been allowed to own or operate their own hospitals. The VA should be nothing more than an insurance underwriter. If a vet has service-connected ailments then they can get a card and their treatment gets covered. But the second you allow the federal government to form a new bureaucracy you had to know this was going to happen.
Do we honestly 'need' a completely separate network of nation-wide hospitals ran by bureaucrats?
Every state already has hospitals.
Oh, but vets are so different, civilian hospitals never treat gunshot wounds or mass trauma injuries, really?
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That sounds appropriate.
I am sorry for the hassle that you had to experience, but you had to know upfront that you were dealing with government bureaucrats.
There will be a series of news articles about how horrid healthcare is at one VA hospital. People get upset, legislators respond to letters, and more money to thrown at that one hospital. The previous managers are either promoted to other agencies, or else they get pensions. The new manager makes nice speeches and brings in a new staff of bureaucrats. There seems to be a 4 or 5 year turnaround period and then that one hospital gets rave reviews, WooHoo.
While in another state there is a series of news articles about how horrid healthcare is at that VA hospital. People get upset, legislators respond to letters, and more money to thrown at that one hospital. The previous managers are either promoted to other agencies, or else they get pensions. The new manager makes nice speeches and brings in a new staff of bureaucrats. after 4 or 5 years that one hospital gets rave reviews, WooHoo.
While in another state, ...
At any one time, somewhere there is a VA hospital with patients being ignored with festering bedsores and untreated symptoms. At the same time, somewhere else there is a VA hospital undergoing $Billion renovations and new staffing.
If you can find one 'good' VA hospital, come back in ten years and see how they are doing.
I am not saying that the Birmingham Alabama VA hospital is cursed, while the Wilmington hospital is blessed. Which hospital is 'good' and which ones are 'bad' rotate.
The VA should have never been allowed to own or operate their own hospitals. The VA should be nothing more than an insurance underwriter. If a vet has service-connected ailments then they can get a card and their treatment gets covered. But the second you allow the federal government to form a new bureaucracy you had to know this was going to happen.
Do we honestly 'need' a completely separate network of nation-wide hospitals ran by bureaucrats?
Every state already has hospitals.
Oh, but vets are so different, civilian hospitals never treat gunshot wounds or mass trauma injuries, really?
That sounds appropriate.
I am sorry for the hassle that you had to experience, but you had to know upfront that you were dealing with government bureaucrats.
What hassle did I experience? I hassled FIL through from no appointment to check in eight weeks and that by phone. That makes me the hassle:>)
Whatever your personal experience with VA hospitals is based on - I cannot confirm.
Sarcasm does a lot of good. OKC hospitals did treat mass trauma. Plenty of gunshot wounds during hunting season when non shooters show up.
The purpose of these various so called social service agencies is the preservation of these agencies and the jobs associated with it. Not to best serve the citizens who utilize these services. They have a monopoly its not like you can go down the road to a competing agency for help.
That is a big problem. It seems to me a lot of employees of these agencies are themselves people who would otherwise be unemployable anywhere. By getting "employed" by these non-profits, they get a monthly check, but they often do nothing of any use, except devise ways to preserve the existence of their "agency".
In San Francisco, there is an agency called Urban Alchemy that pays on average about $22-23 per hour to felons released from incarceration, to hang around in the street wearing vests with reflective stripes, try to de-escalate potential violent conflicts in the streets, and clean up a bit of plentiful trash (since the streets are now owned by drug trade and homeless people with or without tents). The agency is one of the most visible and most generously subsidized by the city, but there is a myriad of others, small and large. The city continues to look and feel like h*ll to me, and it used to be my favorite city in the world 2000-2019.
Anyway, here is an article discussing the pros and cons of the particular non-profit agency that I mentioned (the title suggests that the pros outweigh the cons, but read particularly the comments from regular San Franciscans below the article):
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