Veterans Benefits

Accessible Health Care Is Priveleged to Serve Our Nation's Veterans

We are honored to provide home care for veterans who have served our nation in its time of need. We work with you on the paperword and provide the information to avoid potential pension claim delays. After you become an approved participant in a VA program, we are authorized to provide the quality home care, help and companionship our veterans deserve. There are number of different veteran in-home care programs for which you may qualify: They include:

Improved Pension Benefit Program

Homemaker/Home Health Aide Program

In-Home Respite Program

How Do You Qualify?

If you or your spouse served 90 consecutive days of active military duty
or if you have served at least one day during a U.S. declared war
You may qualify or be partially qualified.

We also need specific financial criteria and documented physical need for in-home care.

To begin our application process, you will need:

Original discharge certificate

Marriage certificate (divorce papers from any prior marriages, if applicable)

Death certificate of veteran (if applicable)

Social Security numbers for the veteran and spouse

The Aid and Attendance program is a benefit paid by Veterans Affairs (VA) to veterans, veteran spouses or surviving spouses. It is paid in addition to a veteran's basic pension.

The benefit may not be paid without eligibility to a VA basic pension. Aid and Attendance is for applicants who need financial help for in-home care, to pay for an assisted living facility or a nursing home.

It is a non-service connected disability benefit, meaning the disability does not have to be a result of service. You cannot receive non-service and service-connected compensation at the same time. Aid and Attendance benefits are paid to those applicants who:

Are eligible for a VA pension
Meet service requirements
Meet certain disability requirements
Meet income and asset limitations

Do VA benefits cover
nursing home care?

VA benefits provide for a range of long-term services which include, Nursing Home Care, Domiciliary Care, Adult Day Health Care, Geriatric Evaluation and Respite Care. Nursing home benefits may be provided if specific qualifications are met; those are: a veteran must be in need of such care and seeking nursing home care for a service-connected (SC) disability, OR is rated 60% SC and unemployable, OR is rated 60% SC and permanently and totally disabled (P&T) OR for any condition if the veteran has a combined SC disability rating of 70% or more.

The care will be provided in a VA nursing home or contract nursing home. NSC and non-compensable zero percent SC veterans can apply for long term care in the VA but could be subject to long term care co-payments. Veterans with a compensable service-connected disability are exempt from long term care co-payments. NSC veterans applying for Extended Care or the Nursing Home Care Unit may be required to complete VA Form 10-10EC to determine the family's current income and assets.

Veterans may be discharged from a VA Nursing Home Care Unit (NHCU) without consent when VA nursing home care is no longer needed; for example, if the veteran's needs can be met at home or in a private nursing home close to the family. Veterans requiring nursing home care for a service-connected condition or a veteran rated 70% or more have mandatory eligibility for admission to Extended Care Services; and, those veterans are eligible to have indefinate care provided to them in the VA or in a VA contracted nursing home.

If you have questions please give us a call: (831) 464-3400