VA Halts All Removals from Caregiver Program
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- čas přidán 21. 03. 2022
- Today, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs announced that it's halting all removals from the caregiver program until a full review of new eligibility criteria can be completed. Our CEO Steve Schwab explains what this remarkable news means for our community.
God bless you and your family and caring for us veterans thank you for fighting for us.
IT SHOULD NOT HURT TO SERVE AND TO BE A DISABLED VETERAN IN AMERICA!!!
No it shouldn’t. In 2018 congress quietly changed the criteria to make it harder to qualify when they included Vietnam vets who should’ve been included to begin with so basically what they did was rob some vets to pay others, (caregivers), but it will be changed in October. My husband is at 100% disabled and I was on level 2 and under the 2018 criteria I no longer qualify. He served 20 years now retired. I’m hopeful the new VA President and this administration will put us back where we were-it sounds like it’s what they’re going to do. Hang in there
As a caregiver since 2012 trying to get back into the program, I am so grateful to the caregivers who spoke up and to the administration who listened.
Thank goodness
I'm a 100 percent disabled combat veteran retiree. I've been on the caregiver program for going on the past ten years. I've seen my caregiver reduced in hours and pay even as the VA upped my disability. Recently we have found out that we are being discharged from the caregiver program. Evidently traumatic brain injury was not sufficient. Hearing this gives me some hope. Perhaps the VA has realized that they need to reevaluate this program. Thank you all for your part in bringing this issue up.
As a fellow disabled Veteran, I am sad to hear of your experience. The VA needs to be dismantled and benefit administration put in the hands of entities that truly care and have integrity and are worthy of Veteran’s trust. That does not describe the VA. I was excited to hear from the Elizabeth Dole Foundation of the VAs about face on removing folks from the caregivers program. You deserve to be treated with respect and dignity. Thanks for your service to our country. Michael USAF, retired.
I believe you will be put back where you were in the program as my daughter just heard today that she was. My husband is also 100% disabled retired army vet and we’re currently being accessed to get back into the program and since hearing from my daughter I feel more positive about it so hang in there and pay no attention to the trolls making negative comments about the halt to change the criteria back to where it should be. I know it’s not easy. I hope the best for you.
As a veteran my wife had to go back to work because of this. Even now she worry’s more because even if she quits her job she stays on the lowest pier. I still haven’t gotten my tub chair to be able to safely get in and out of the tub due to breaking my back in three different areas in my spine when in service. As the va didn’t believe me and did medical malpractice on me as I was told nothing can be done. It’s bad seeing people go up on piers as others get discharged just due to facts that the outside therapist and psychiatrist can’t just send veterans documents to the caregiver support program without them filing out proper paperwork. Why was about to get discharged.
@@smithhomestead1589 They need some good people and the tools (IT) to keep thier Caregiver records up to date. I think they are really struggling to try to make that happen. That, and i would like to see a doctor who votes with this board that has actually met, evaluated, and treated you as the veteran. I think those things would actually help us as veterans...and probably save a ton of cash for the VA as well.
@@philliplopez1501 yea the va is in need of way more then just IT. I seen doctor and many others leave VA hospital because of higher paid job. Yes I would love to see the same thing but me being far away from any va area it is hard for them to get anything from my current doctor. Caregiver started to drop me and wife because saying I got better. Of course a person will get better when they are on a lot of drugs.
It would be great if we didn’t have to beg for it…again.
Please keep us updated this is just horrible and a huge injustice to all our disabled veterans!
The criteria will be updated in October to include mental illness once more is what I’m told and I was a level 2 caregiver since 2012 who now doesn’t qualify. Hang in there
Thanks to everyone at the foundation.
I’m also thankful to everyone who helped to get this on the right tract.
Iraq Combat Veteran ,my family was devastating when we received the drop out news ,now we are back !!!!
Thank you for reporting on this very important matter.
As a 100% disabled veteran due to multiple disabilities including an above-the-knee amputation. We have been denied caregiver status for my wife. We understand that up to 90% of applicants are being denied caregiver status. What can be done to correct this situation?
The criteria will be changed back to its original form in October. I know how you feel as I am a legacy caregiver and my army retired 20 years served is 100% disabled and seems under the new criteria that congress in 2018 quietly altered to not include any mental disabilities at all-I am now denied eligibility but on the bright side thanks to other disqualified legacy caregivers like myself going before a new congress they are changing the criteria back to include mental disabilities. And my husband was only at 90% when I became a second tier caregiver so reapply in October and you should be fine. The 2018 congress changed the criteria in 2018 when they included Vietnam vets who should’ve been included to begin with but to pay additional caregivers they decided to take from existing caregivers and make it harder to qualify. They did this quietly and it was plain wrong but it’s going to get straight in October my caregiver nurse coordinator told me and I was certified in 2012 so it hurt to all of a sudden be dropped from the program. I’m confident we will get it back to where it should’ve stayed. They basically robbed caregivers of vets to pay caregivers of vets instead of finding the money to benefit all vets which is deserved as it’s difficult to manage mental illness and I’m sure they put brain injury into the same category. Just hang in there like we are doing.
wtf are you serious.. thats crazy. I hope you are appealing
@@SpaceRanger187 Been waiting since October 2022 for a VBA date.
Well, I’m not sure it’s going to happen to me, because I’m going on 1plus years and had phone interviews hours long and calls from whomever, only to be sent a letter of DENIAL, not once did I go through it, but two times,I’m disgusted and have not gotten anywhere or no help from anyone
It’s appalling to me that a person behind a chair has the right to tell me I don’t qualify, come to my home for a few days
Is not the worst, but it’s not easy . I’m 77 my Veteran Husband is 88, guess they will wait for one of us to die before giving me
anything I deserve!!!!!!!!
Im so sorry that happened to you maybe this will be a lea way for the program to accept your veteran and you as a caregiver. We too are saddened by the new challenges the VA is proposing to the program and hopefully it changes for the better .
My sister and brother in law, a Vietnam vet, was on it only a month or two before he died so yes they waited so long before they were allowed to apply and that’s not right. My sister struggled every day as my brother in law suffered brain deterioration from agent orange and she knew nothing about a caregiver program until I told her and still they had to wait, they’re also in their 70’s as are most Vietnam Vets who should’ve been informed at the beginning.
I was a care giver since 2012-my husband who’s bipolar was put on Prozac and an even higher dose-This didn’t happen overnight-I got up one morning and he had left taking barely anything after 25 yrs of marriage-I lost my stipend soon after and once my husband was taken off Prozac and they found the right meds he became severely depressed over what he’d done and lost-his wife-children-grandsons-our home and everything in it. I knew it wasn’t him behind those eyes barely sleeping two hours a night before he left so long to short we reconciled but when I applied to get my caregiver status back it was denied. The VA psyche prescriber really screwed up the entire family-I’m appealing but I’d still be a caregiver with a stipend had my husband not taken off! He was in the most severe manic state I’d ever seen. I called the crises nurse I called his psychologist who called the police and they all knew where he was but no one would tell me. It was so harsh so punishing because I knew once he got off Prozac he’d want to come home. Apparently I had no power as a wife or caregiver-I had no right to know where he was according to the VA caregivers program. I made a huge mistake by calling any of them.
I’m so sorry
request in person evalution for eligibility and bring a letter from your local VSO supporting your claim. Cry and plead in person.
My wife was about to get dropped because they said I got better! How they are just like the va. Our house is trashed by laundry, wife does everything she can even for our kids because I don’t know where things are and can’t remember appts.
She had to start working a job because we couldn’t afford firewood or bills because she is the lowest paid. I seen other veterans spouses that get the highest amount because they are scared of their loved ones going to be part of the 22 a day. Am 100% ptsd and 100% IU. Their service isn’t what it needs to be because am still waiting on a chair for the tub.
My husband is 100% and we were dropped but it’s going to be back in October I was told. We reapplied but we won’t make it under the 2018 criteria. How they could do this to veterans is beyond me. It’s just plain not right.
Denied didn't review my case all the way. Still waiting for denial letter after almost 2 months. Might Appeal .
Thanks for your time
100% percent and been trying to get aid and attendance or Caregiver and can’t get any assistance
My husband is 80% disabled and can’t walk, bend, stand, literally anything physical and they kicked him out saying he was better. Each year he gets worse and still no help.
Had social worker give me a call the other day. She only had the amount of hours I get a week right and the company name that sends out the caregiver. They keep cutting this program back and I guarantee that if we don't get on our congress person to act on our behalf then the program will not be around much longer and I'm sure that there are many veterans that don't know what this program is and if they qualify for it. It took over 3 times to the ER before the va was like there's something wrong with him and the doctors didn't say directly but after doing my own research I have alzheimers although they didn't want to say it or directly put down in my records but they put down their findings which is the same thing! So the social worker got everything else wrong and I have lost most of my ability to speak clearly and with a straight sentence so they constantly try to cut me off, you can't let them walk all over you, keep speaking on your pace and stay on your topic until you have answered their questions before they try to move to the next one. It may take you an hour or more on the phone but you need to get your voice heard!
So my thing is and what I told her if I don't get the help I've been getting then I'm back to square one going back to the ER just to get back on the program that the government seems to want to take away and the VA will never say anything about more benefits we're entitled to until something drastic happens and then they'll have to pay more!
Please post info on the dole foundation, people need to know who is on their corner.
I am a 100% P&T veteran. But, I served from 1979-1982. Even though I qualify for a caregiver as a result of my disability rating, I'm in the hole where the caregiver program isn't available to me. Now, that's unfair. I've seen for the past 3 years that care is supposed to be available to me in 2 years. Yet, it still isn't.
My online nurse told me they are swamped because of the constant re assessment's. I applied Oct 22 and was denied prob because we couldn't get a doctor app until feb. Was denied Nov22. They were all really nice tho.
too bad this did not come sooner, it was suggested to my caregiver that she get a part-time job out of the home to give her some thing other than just taking care of me full-time. Then we were told we were being removed because she had a part-time job, The program was being cut back, so they had to figure who could stay and who had to go. We tried to get back on the program again denied, even though my wife how to take care of me full-time. So one days she has to go to work if my daughter cannot help, I sit in the car at her job in case there’s an emergency being that I have seizures that will end me up in the hospital at times in comas. Yet the VA still refuses to help. So we’ve just kind of given up ourselves we realize there’s nothing we can do
They giving my brother hard time for this program… disqualification on program not getting support for this program by VA refusing to assist making things hard for veteran losing hope to live making his Mental health worse
I think the VA needs to reevaluate it again because me and my wife are on our third appeal. This is bull. I’ve had the VA install a walk-in shower and wheelchair ramp. They issued me a wheelchair I have chronic PTSD. My counselor has written a letter to the VA stating that I do not need to be left alone that I am a danger to myself but yet these people in their little cubicles love to play God with peoples lives.
If that's the case why was my wife and I notified 2 months ago that i we were being removed from the program. Because for some reason my Condition I got better better even though what was read to us had nothing to do with my tumors my egg surgery's for my neck shoulders or the helicopter incident that calls the accident in the 1st place. When asked about this theThe social worker at that time said that none of that was in our file and and when I confronted my medical team which was the head of their department they all said that everything about me is right there on the 1st page because they made sure of that because this was not the 1st time that someone claimed I had the Benjamin button disease. even though we were legacy you see also they were putting a halt on removing us but we were still being removed in the February 23
I can’t wait to be a va caregiver. Been taking care of my dad since Sep 23 2021. Applied for the program but was denied because my dad has to be at least at %70 disability. He recently had a secondary injury, fell and hit his neck on the door (He had spine surgery in July 2021 because of it). My dad is currently in process to get a temporary %100 disability for at least a year amongst some other claims. We went to a c&p exam in April of 2022 concerning the secondary injury, praying all goes well. Once he gets temporary %100, I will then be eligible to join the va caregiver program. I can then be back payed to November 2021, date of the original va caregiver application as a caregiver so I’m looking forward to it. Pray for us y’all.
LIES!!!!! Just wait you'll see.
Hmm I just got a call yesterday stating that my husband and I no longer qualify for the program after our re-evaluation, so I am not sure if this pause in removing people from the program is actually happening for everyone.
UPDATE: Caregiver Support called a few days ago and told us there is a pause on removing people from the program while they review the reassessment process. We will continue to be in the program until the review is complete, but she has no idea when that will be and if we will be approved to stay in the program or still removed at that point. For now, we are good. Not sure why this info was out for two months before she knew about it.🤷🏻♀️
This is 100% REAL! I personally know-my daughter was just added back into the program much to her relief and it happened within a couple weeks of being told she didn’t meet the criteria and she’s back in already so any negative comments or politicizing of this pause is totally wrong and unfounded and I’m speaking as the wife of a 20 army retired war veteran who got into the caregiver program in 2012. No one has reason or basis to judge this halt to change the criteria to be more realistic and fair at this point so for the people who are personally effected by this please ignore those who probably know nothing about the program to begin with and don’t understand the real people this effects. This is a good thing they’re doing and it’s not political. Not everything is.
What?? It was hard trying to read your comment. It’s written like one long run-on sentence.
I am 100% disabled veteran I was denied recently
Along with several other veterans
Hi I don't usually do this online chat stuff but I have a 15 bedroom house with 10 bathrooms movie theater room dance hall and I'm trying to figure out what to do with all this extra space
Hoping it applies to a year ago.
I was notified on March 23rd that we no longer qualified for the caregiver program and have been totally dropped. I've filed an appeal, but if the reassessments were suspended, why should I need to? And who do I turn to to get it overturned???
Also they are no longer concerned about my Mental stability just my physical stability. Which have been stated to us More than once. Also why is none of this or is this or the information about the Elizabeth doe foundation any of that information being put out to the caregivers or the the veterans the only thing that's being told is that they're waiting to hear the result from the burn pit or the pack that but everything that you guys have discussed that I found thus far on CZcams No one has said anything to any caregiver that I have spoken to about why are we not even having caregiver meetings anymore everything else is Zoom why are there not any caregiver support zoom meetings going on for the caregiver themselves to have a of a communication hub with each other together it was that way before
It's true, as a caregiver I was told all about Va support for me that Im not going to get..because of denial.
This dude is just patting the administration on the back.
I was wondering about that
Will caregivers receive a letter confirming that their removal has been halted or should they continue with the appeal process in the meantime?
Me and my Wife were discharged, after 3 years on the program. Said I don't meet the requirements anymore.
I guess being able to help my son with math, and fold sone clothes made me not able to be on the program...
Same here Roger. They don’t care about us.
i cannot get basic service at the Atlanta VA they give the care giver support program based on your records. well they give me the run around for basic services. i have documented multiple ways requesting services and the VA failing to provide by white house complaint secure message and video. so i am denyed care giver support based on the fact the VA failed to gove me services but i have it documented. they are still doing it now today i am talking with people every day and they give me the run around. i need help someone please help me. PLEASE HELP ME..... i dont deserve to be treated the way the Atlanta VA is treating me they are some of the dirtiest people nastiest people i have ever met and i video recorded all of it. they turned my medical records into a twitter account. bad employees putting in my notes i am rude when the video shows them literally laughing when i am in pain. WTF why wont anyone help me. i have MS i have a fractured spine i am 100 percent service connected. PLEASE SOMEONE HELP ME
I was denied 😔.
Como esposa de un veterano creo que sigue igual pues las preguntas de evaluación están mal redactadas y por esto muchos casos los deniegan, mi caso fue denegado,mi esposo es 100% de incapacidad y requiere de toda mi asistencia más sin embargo ellos no lo vieron así y por eso lo han denegado dos veces
We were notified 2 months ago
Apparently my VA didn't get the memo. My reassement kick decision was made March 22, 2022. They have made me appeal through them, and are still processing the appeals. I just received that decision. I am a legacy participant effectively being booted even during this pause. What can I do. I'm also 100% permanent and totally with aid and attendance.
DID YOU go to VA caregiver .gov? They stopped the assessments and no one is being kicked off that was going to be. They are working on it
i am legacy of 12 years. They are not currently booting anybody while they rewrite the program specs. Keep going to appointments and stay on top of things rn
My question is about the veterans who served in the Korean War whom have Alzhimers and dementia? What benefits are they entitled to???? 🤔 as it's known they can't care for themselves past a certain point....
I've been a caregiver for a 100% purple Heart veteran. After my evaluation in February they called us and said we were being removed. They even wanted me to write an appeal letter and have yet to be denied officially in writing. So even though they have this video up they are still kicking out lots of us to save their pennies. Sad day for Veterans who cant even get back what they have more than given to others.
same they denied my appeal then congress rugged the appeals and they are re writing the whole program. Benefits will continue until then
Well poop this is to late for me- I am a legacy participant and after my wife found out she wasn’t going to get paid to take care of me she decided to leave me so she wouldn’t have to put up with me. Now I’m stuck with no caregiver and they won’t let me add a new caregiver
Other family members can be caregivers too.
I was kicked out already! No transition, no help, no nothing! We went from top tier level of help needed to- NOTHING! Now my husband is no longer on Meds and I’m unable to stay with him and take care of him.( Dangerous) We did the appeal and still turned down.Life has been miserable! 😩 😭
Us too. My husband is 100%. Reapply in October when the criteria will hopefully be back to where it was. Hang in there I know how you feel.
Does anyone know if a 70% vet can get caregiver benefits if he has a job. Not 40 full-time hours of care but maybe 10 to help get ready and be drove to a job?
I'm in the process of a reassessment... what does this mean for me?? Are the same eligibility criteria going to be pushed for caregivers like myself going through this process??
You will have to be bedridden with the new ADL rule they have
I would ask a nurse coordinator. I wouldn’t take comments from people on here that are only expressing opinions. Call someone who can give you the right answer. I’m in the same boat as you and waiting to see. Our coordinator is going to call us soon.
They do it every 3 months anyway. A complete waste of time and money. 100% permanent should be clinical review once a year. I got denied because it takes 3 months for an appointment. Clinical fail on the part of the Va.
I got denied 😔 how ??
Hopefully they will add the Desert Storm veterans to this.
They will be able to apply this upcoming October
@@adlomax4861 great news!
We just received a call from the VA relating to us that we are being placed on a list of revaluation due to being kicked off the list. They said do not do the appeal and to wait so hopefully everyone else will be receiving this call as well!
That's odd.. I didn't get a call
Can anyone confirm when disabled vets from all periods will become eligible to apply for the caregiver program?
Now but it’s best to wait until October when the criteria will go back closer it’s original form before they made it harder in 2018 to qualify.
just apply and send it if you know what i mean
that program does not work here in the philippines i was denied for the reason i live in a foreign country
If you’re taking care of a disabled veteran you it shouldn’t matter what country you’re in. You should reapply.
100 % P+T... THIS DISCHARGE from the caregiver program just Triggered AN IMMEDIATE LONG FORM, CDR SOCIAL SECURITY REVIEW. Because the VA DETERMINED I am no longer disabled according to the VA caregiver assessment.
what im hearing is that we made a mistake and now we are going to rewrite the requirments so that there will not be any doubt that you will be kicked out so the longer we wait and the more we praise the president maybe we will get your votes and do the same mistake next term lets cut the BS it doesnt sound like your helping us it sounds like a campaign speech
AMEN!!!!
Right? They’re not helping anybody, they’re just kicking the can before they ultimately slam that coffin.
This has nothing to do with votes. This is a do over of a major “wrong” done to caregivers of vets that needs to be righted. But of course there’s always somebody to make it into whatever suits them. You can leave the political rhetoric out of this one.
@@tammyjohnson8924 so you really believe this “pause” or assessment of the reassessment, while they continue to kick people off and mention nothing about what just talked about in this video, you really believe the people in charge have their hearts in the right place and the wrongs will be rectified? Asking seriously, not sarcastically. thanks
@@tammyjohnson8924 so you really beleive what you are saying I'm sorry that you don't understand what is really going on