In a letter to Collins on Sept. 3<\/a>, seven veterans organizations, including the Quality of Life Foundation, the Elizabeth Dole Foundation, the National Defense Committee, the National Veterans Legal Services Program, the Independence Fund, Veteran Caregiver-Wise Health and Veteran Warriors asked the VA to make a formal announcement regarding its plans to extend the Sept. 30, 2025, deadline.<\/p>\n\u201cThis uncertainty is generating significant anxiety among Legacy participants, and it is limiting our ability as stakeholder organizations to provide them with reassurance or guidance,\u201d they wrote. <\/p>\n
The VA announced the postponement in a Sept. 29 Federal Register notice. <\/p>\n
The caregiver program provides respite services, health care and stipends ranging from roughly $1,800 to about $3,000 per month to designated family members or friends for the care they provide to a veteran in lieu of a home health aide. <\/p>\n
Nearly 90,000 veterans were enrolled in either the PCAFC program or the VA\u2019s Program of General Caregiver Support Services as of December 2024. The latter program provides counseling, support, coaching and other services to veteran caregivers. <\/p>\n
The PCAFC provides health care for caregivers through the VA\u2019s Civilian Health and Medical Program, travel expenses, respite services and stipends ranging from roughly $1,800 to about $3,000 per month. <\/p>\n
About Patricia\u00a0Kime<\/p>\n
Patricia Kime is a senior writer covering military and veterans health care, medicine and personnel issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to extend benefits through 2028 to veteran caregivers who faced removal from…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":394435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[19118,58517,100898,19119,100899,210,1141,1142,187233,100900,67,132,68,187234,15994,187235],"class_list":{"0":"post-394434","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health-care","8":"tag-circulated-air-force-times","9":"tag-circulated-army-times","10":"tag-circulated-marine-corps-times","11":"tag-circulated-military-times","12":"tag-circulated-navy-times","13":"tag-health","14":"tag-health-care","15":"tag-healthcare","16":"tag-legacy-benefits","17":"tag-military-times","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-va-assistance","22":"tag-veterans-affairs","23":"tag-wounded-veterans"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115587227484618853","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}