Caregiver: Now available to Vietnam Vets

[broncovet]

The Caregiver stipend, previously available only to "new" Vets, has been opened up for Vietnam/Korea/WW2 Vets:

Source:

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/10/06/va-expands-caregiver-stipend-cover-eligible-vietnam-korea-and-world-war-ii-veterans.html

This could be a big deal for you, if you need a caregiver.  

[ewsieczka]

I was receiving the stipend for three months in 2019 and then it stopped. The VA Manila Clinic stopped funding it.

[broncovet]

That sounds like a reduction to me, and, if VA did not follow procedure required to reduce you, you (likely), you should be able to get it back upon appeal.  

[ewsieczka]

No appeal. No nothing. Overseas expat veterans do not get a caregiver stipend. I called the WH VA hotine too.

[ewsieczka]

On 10/15/2020 at 5:43 AM, broncovet said:

The Caregiver stipend, previously available only to "new" Vets, has been opened up for Vietnam/Korea/WW2 Vets:

Source:

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/10/06/va-expands-caregiver-stipend-cover-eligible-vietnam-korea-and-world-war-ii-veterans.html

This could be a big deal for you, if you need a caregiver.  

I'm not a Vietnam vet. 

[ewsieczka]

Found out why now. VA Manila cannot conduct home visit inspections to give out the stipend.

[Sgt.Riker]

The VA caregivers program is a sham under the mission act. I’ve been in the

system for 40 plus years and been treated at the Baypines VA for the last 6

years. I’ve been receiving 100% since 2006, and just recently been diagnosed 

with prostrate cancer from agent orange(Vietnam) which right now is

another 100%(Housebound). This don’t include my other service connections.,

so about 5 months ago my other half signed up for this stupid caregivers

program., so we go threw all this which was a great big hassle from these

people that weren’t too educated to put it lightly to wait another 2 months

for a answer. In the meantime I received a .50 cent shoehorn and a .99 cent

plastic stocking puller. At that time I told the wifey that we were turned down

for the caregivers program. The following week I received the answer

stating I did not meet the criteria for the program. Then I smell something

fishy about the appeals process with caregivers program. It stated that i

have to file my appeal within 60 days of the letter to the patient advocate.

It’s a so called block so my appeal won’t be heard in DC but in-house in

front of the same people who denied my claim in the first place. Then i

called the caregivers Dept. And spoke to a very nasty female and this

is what she told me. The caregivers program is only for the physicality 

handicapped not for veterans who has mentality defected programs

or who is mentality challenged like myself. Advice don’t applied until

presi Biden or Harris steps in.

Semper-Fi