SALT LAKE CITY — Being a caregiver for a military veteran is a whole lot easier with the local Caregiver Support Program provided by Veterans Affairs. The support program was started by the United ...
Beginning Saturday, caregivers of combat veterans who served from the mid-1970s to late 2001 can apply for health care and benefits under the Department of Veterans Affairs program for families. The ...
The Department of Veterans Affairs is expected to announce Tuesday that it will temporarily stop dismissing veterans from its program that provides benefits and compensation to family members who ...
The Department of Veterans Affairs needs to step up outreach and coordination to caregivers of disabled veterans to ensure that they are aware of available programs and they understand the eligibility ...
WASHINGTON — The Department of Veterans Affairs will open eligibility for one of its caregiver programs to veterans starting Saturday. The Comprehensive Assistance for Family Caregivers program is one ...
When Greg returned home from three tours in Iraq and Afghanistan with PTSD and serious physical injuries, he had nowhere to turn. He was not the same person as before; he had fallen into a figurative ...
WASHINGTON – Following Senator Maggie Hassan’s push for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to address concerns with the Program of Comprehensive Assistance for Family Caregivers, the VA today ...
In the early days of the Iraq War, troops were riding around in Humvees with almost no armor on them. There was a scandal about it, and within a few years the trucks got up-armored with thick steel ...
A planned expansion of the Program of Comprehensive Assistance for Family Caregivers is still scheduled to happen this fall (Army photo). With about two months left until a congressional deadline, ...
In this June 21, 2013, file photo, the seal affixed to the front of the Department of Veterans Affairs building in Washington. (Charles Dharapak/AP) In a 2021 class-action lawsuit of Beaudette v.
WASHINGTON – Three senators introduced legislation this week designed to expand home and community-based services for aging and homebound veterans residing in the United States. The bill, which is ...