If you run a home health agency, you probably feel like you are wearing a hundred different hats, from finding the right employees, to dealing with all of the issues they bring with them. Moreover, you are communicating with clients who are stressed out and who are wondering how they are going to be able to pay for your valuable services.
Did you know that there is a Federal program that can pay your clients directly, to help defray the cost of their in home healthcare. This is the Veterans Administration Aid & Attendance benefit program that is available to veterans and to their surviving spouses. In order to qualify, clients who are veterans or who are surviving spouses of veterans, need to meet required income and asset limitations. These requirements can be legally and honestly met, through the help of an elder law attorney accredited in this area.
For married couples, the benefit can be as much $1,949 per month or more, and for surviving spouses of a veteran, the benefit can be as much as $1,056 per month or more.
The benefit to your clients is that this program provides an additional source of funds to them, to help pay the cost of in home care that you are providing to them. Our clients all want to stay at home as long as possible, and we all know that it is better for all involved, if our clients can stay home longer.
If you’d like to learn more about how the VA Aid and Attendance program works, then I’d like to invite you to a workshop I will be hosting for home healthcare providers here at our offices. We will be sending additional information to you regarding upcoming programs. We are also available for in-service programs regarding this benefit. You may contact our offices for additional information, and feel fee to check our website at www.WalnutCreekElderLaw.com.
By Michael J. Young, Elder Law Attorney, with offices in Walnut Creek, and serving Contra Costa and Alameda Counties.