Never Too Late
VA Benefits, Pension, and Healthcare for Veterans Who Never Filed
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About this book
If you are an older veteran, the VA offers benefits you may never have looked at: Aid and Attendance, long-term and home-based care, caregiver support, pension, survivor benefits, and rating questions that matter more later in life. Many veterans who never filed, or filed once decades ago, do not know these programs exist. There is no age limit and no deadline for a first VA disability claim. This guide walks through the programs in plain language, for you and for the family helping you.
Inside this book
- 1The Aging Veteran and the VA
- 2Long-Term Care Landscape
- 3Home-Based Primary Care and Geriatric Services
- 4The VA Caregiver Support Program
- 5Surviving as the Spouse of an Aging Veteran
- 6The Fiduciary Program
- 7Age-Related Rating Increases
- 8Burial Benefits, Pre-Need Planning, and End-of-Life Care
- 9State Benefits and Tax Exemptions for Aging Veterans
- 10Planning for the Future
The book points you to its free field guide, Filing a Claim Years After Service (a free download, no signup).
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Free worksheetFive Ten Twenty
Free worksheetNot All Five
Free worksheetThe Frozen Record
Free worksheetTwo More Questions
Free worksheetVA Math Worksheet
Free worksheetWhere You Were
J. Erickson
Author, educator, former veteran service officer.
J. Erickson is a service-disabled Air Force veteran. He served as a military firefighter and as a veteran service officer, where he spent years walking veterans through the same claims process he writes about now. He holds an MBA and writes plain-language guides for veterans who want to understand the system without a translator.
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