Elder Law Today Show #5 VA Aid and Attendance - The Best Kept Secret in Long Term Care

In the fifth
installment of his podcast, Elder Law Today, Yale Hauptman, takes
Elder Law Today on the road to a Caregiving Symposium he spoke at
recently.  Yale interviews a geriatric care manager, a contractor who
makes modifies homes for the elderly and other vendors who attended
the symposium about the variety of services they provide to the
elderly.

In the second segment Yale discusses in greater depth the Veterans
Administration Aid and Attendance program, which provides wartime
veterans and their spouses who qualify, as much as $1800 per month of
additional income which can help pay for home based care and assisted
living care.  Learn the details of this little known program and why
so many people have been incorrectly told by the VA that they don’t
or can’t qualify.  Yale talks about terms such as income for
Veteran Administration purposes and unreimbursed medical expenses and
why they don’t mean what you might think.

Listen
to Yale explain the income and asset levels that must be met and how
they differ from those of Medicaid.  Yale cautions that in taking the
steps necessary to obtain the VA benefit you must be careful not to
leave yourself ineligible for other government benefit programs such
as Medicaid that might be needed further down the road of what Yale
refers to as the elder care journey.  Yale explains how it is
possible to preserve eligibility for both programs.  This is
definitely a program you won’t want to miss.

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