The Caregiver's Playbook
A Family Caregiver's Guide to the VA PCAFC Application, Assessment, and Reassessment
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About this book
The VA built a program for family caregivers, with a monthly stipend, health coverage, training, and respite. Many caregivers never hear about it, or hear about it and bounce off the paperwork.
This is a playbook, not a pamphlet. It moves in order, names the traps, and tells you the truth about what is hard. You'll meet Grace, who cares for her husband Caleb, throughout these pages. Grace, Caleb, and every other caregiver and veteran in the book are composites, built to show you the moves. The mechanics were current as of this writing.
Inside this book
- 1What PCAFC Actually Is
- 2PCAFC, the General Program, and Respite Care
- 3Do You Qualify
- 4Legacy, the All-Eras Expansion, and the 2028 Window
- 5Filing VA Form 10-10CG
- 6The Assessment and Home Visit
- 7The Stipend and the Two Levels
- 8Reassessment and How to Prepare for It
- 9Appealing a Caregiver Decision
- 10The Full Caregiver Benefit Package
The book points you to its free field guide, Applying to the Caregiver Program (a free download, no signup).
Pairs with
Free guides and worksheets need no signup and no book. Books and workbooks are coming soon.
Workbook · Coming soonThe Survivor and Caregiver Workbook
Free guideApplying to the Caregiver Program (PCAFC)
Free worksheetNot All Five
Free worksheetThe Frozen Record
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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