Good news for Veterans and caregivers in the Program of Comprehensive Assistance for Family Caregivers (PCAFC): VA is extending eligibility and applicable benefits for Legacy Participants and Legacy Applicants through Sept. 30, 2025.
VA will not discharge participants or decrease support
During this time, VA will not discharge or decrease any support to Legacy Participants, Legacy Applicants and their Family Caregivers, based on reassessment, to include monthly stipends paid to Primary Family Caregivers.
This extends the transition period and timeline to complete reassessments for Legacy Participants, Legacy Applicants and their Family Caregivers for an additional three years.
VA will continue to complete reassessments of Legacy Participants, Legacy Applicants and their Family Caregivers at the request of the Veteran or Family Caregiver or if evidence of an increased need for personal care services is identified.
Options to seek further review or appeal
Any Primary Family Caregiver eligible for an increase in their monthly stipend will receive it.
If you receive a PCAFC decision and disagree with that decision, the options to seek further review or appeal of the decision remain the same. Information about review and appeal options for PCAFC decisions can be found on the VA Caregiver Support Program (CSP) website.
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Who qualifies as a Legacy Veteran?
My husband has Alzheimer’s and I have to fix his medicines and do practically everything inside and outside the house. I do all the driving to Dr Apts etc, cook meals. I didn’t know if we qualified for any assistance or not. Since it’s not specifically nursing related.
I appreciate PCAFC program and the help it has afforded my son. He is 100% disabled and has served his country since he was 17 years old. He is only in his early 30s.
I sat in on local meeting about this. Of course it happened after my caregiving of my Nam Vet husband had passed. No help for him or I during his caregiving of GBM brain cancer.
Hope others get to use this program.
Who/what are legacy partners?
No protection for Caregiver like myself who provide for a severely disabled Vietnam Vet who hasn’t even been able to drive for 7yrs due to SC injuries now illness due to original injury
We were already discriminated against for over 11 yrs. by denial of equal compensation so young healthy vets claiming PTSD (still drive, perform ADLs, shop, cook some even work) could get more money.
I’m disabled, forced into retirement on SS in 2009 due to Lymphatic Filariasis I contracted in SEA along with exposure at 7th RRFS, Ramasun
Station, Thailand to 13 months of daily herbicide (agent orange) exposure.
Even the base commander came down with AO related CANCER…and put a letter into the VA testifying that all those who served at Ramasun Station from 1965 to 1975 were exposed to AO without their knowledge.
I have LF, peripheral neuropathy, precursors to Type II diabetes, all my fillings in teeth installed by USAF in 69 have fallen out, the teeth broke off…5 broken teeth…canot afford medical help or dental help at 73 years old with no insurance…I can’t afford that for me or my wife either. Need
to renovate my home to be able to get around safely and bathe…but am NOT willing to give the VA a home loan mortgage on my house or land.
I think your programs are so much hot air and BS.
How the hell do I, a Vietnam vet (USAFSS 68-72) and my wife caregiver
get signed up on the program under PACT? This idiot VSO, Russell, in Pecos, Texas 79772 is worthless. He has no staff and cannot help me get
signed up.
Thank you for sending news letters through email. It is very informative and helpful
What is my question here: I {The Veteran} am the full-time 24/7 healthcare giver to my wife, do I have any support?
The veteran’s handicap status, as well as his or her residency location, determine eligibility. Below is a quick overview of the licensure benefits that veterans may be eligible for in several states across the United States. Guide for Veterans to Getting a License
I thank God for the honor to have served my country to protect and to preserve all the freedoms and the way of life as guaranteed by the constitution of the United States of America .
Looking for list of benefits for widows of 100% disabled widows. Thank for any help you can give me. Vicki
PCAFC in reviewing medical record by the accessment group, much information is missed, therefore, they deny. I believe only vets with visible injury are approved. Very disappointing * difficult getting approved
They look at the year’s last records only, appeal it. Have them look at all the records. They do not say in the requirements for eligibility that they would only be looking at the last twelve months. I think this is not good since we have been on lockdown because of Covid for the last two years.
My husband is 100% disabled. He has paid, diabetes, severe neuropathy in hands n feet, causing him not to be able to drive, he has problems holding objects even knives n forks, he loses his balance n falls atleast once a week. He is a disabled vietnam veteran. Would he be eligible for me as his care giver. During the past several years his life has changed drastically
Yes. Was he a Vietnam Vet? My husband lost major organs which caused him to become a brittle diabetic. He falls all the time and now has a 18mm Subdural Hematoma they can’t operate on. The VA took his license years ago
You’re really who the program should have been meant for
We are having good results so far with Home Helpers here in OK and AR. This really helps the Spouses that have been taking care of their families for years
Please People and Veterans who read this can you please Spread my belief email your Representative or Senators asked them to contact the Veteran Affairs Committee passed a brand new Disabled Veterans who is 100percent service connected need to have a Dentist that knows how to put in G4implants for free because they don’t have one work for a Veteran Medical Centers Dentistry or have a contract with a Veteran Affairs Administration please Thanks for your support and stay Healthy as possible and your Staff and your Family ?
We’re shipping billions of US dollars to a proxy warfare country in the Ukraine that has failed to maintain its border because of US meddling and nefarious political leaders. Then US vets are discriminated against from financial help from both Social Security and VA for disabilities as we deplete our life savings trying to survive inflation and corrupt US vendors. This is a disgrace and there’s nothing anyone can do to stop the corruption to provide a basic living economy. Thanks for nothing.
Pls I need more information about how to apply for caregiver I’m a disabled disability veteran so pls help me thank you
Earnestly hoping for a positive reply/results
Would like to apply for compensation/s for my wife who is taking care of me due to my disabilities (R/L knees, right forearm, lower back)
Hi, I’ve been taking care of my husband since 2001. His bones in his neck crushed his spinal cord and he has server nerve damage. He suffered from PTSD, and is diabetic.
Would I be eligible for financial help ?
Thank you sooo. Much for careing. For great. Veterans wonderfull protection and some giving their lives to protect you and me!!!!!! We sincerely do love them. Forever and ever. Don’t forget. What I have. Said. Thank you soooo. Much. From a vet by by love. You.
I got approved in November and still have not seen my stipend here it go it’s been retro for 5 months but getting in contact with the caregiver benefits department is not likely. I was on hold for three hours when I was told that I was go recieved it in Jan so just I hope the best to all who do get approved
I’m a disabled veteran and I need help at home I can bath my self, I have bad disc in my back and spinal cord problems, but I was told by a veteran in healthcare I couldn’t get that help if I can still bathe my self, is that true people let me know, thanks.
I am Steven D. Egan, I am presently a Retired US Army member enrolled for treatment at VA Facilities! I am also a person diagnosed as having Early Onset Alzheimer’s! My wife has been appointed as my caretaker. Are there any VA programs related to Alzheimer’s that I can apply for? Thanks for what you all do for us Veterans on a daily basis! We all do appreciate it.
Very Respectfully,
Steven D. Egan
US Army, Retired
Yes you can. If you have a 70% rating .
You need to get better doctors and the people who run the hospitals I was butchered and I was treated like the Villain the doctor was never removed and nobody at the Temple VA cared and would not even talk to me about what happened so you people don’t care about veterans so stop pretending like you do it makes you look stupid I learned quickly what a twenty three year combat veteran was thought of and you’re the people who removed my cochlear nerve and let me go four years falling and getting hurt and laughing and when a true doctor told me you still didn’t believe me and would not even sit down and go over the scan with me
It’s a sad when I can not get return phone calls and messages concerning my VA Home care. After breaking the confidence between a Veteran and a mental health provider and being told I don’t qualify because I go to church. Then to be told no that’s not the reason for cancelling my home care that I have had for nine years approximately but because I drive myself. Not to mention several other issues that are departmental to my quality of life. They are trying to stop doing my medication refill box that contains literally 25 medications not counting my vitamins. Since moving to the Omaha VA from the Colorado VA medical center that I can say that in comparing the 2 different medical centers that I can safely say the Omaha VA is substandard to the Colorado VA. I am not saying the Colorado is outstanding but that it is better than Omaha VA Medical Center.
My mom is is a widow. My father was a veteran of the Korean war. My mom is diagnosed legally blind and has difficulty walking. She needs help with everything. Can she get assistance with VA to have board walk built that we can transport her with her wheelchair. Going down the stairs with her is very difficult. We are always scared that we are gonna drop her. Please can you help us.
Would like to apply for the program need help with home care 100 percent retired vet
Once again POST 9/11 Caregivers and Vets w PTSD needs are placed above all Caregivers of 100% physically wounded WWII, KOREAN, Vietnam and Desert Storm ELDER Veterans
The age and disability discrimination against our elder wounded has to stop.
You know they opened the program to accept veterans from early eras, don’t you?