VA program of Comprehensive Assistance for Family Caregivers expands to veterans of all eras - Effingham Daily News

WASHINGTON — VA’s Program of Comprehensive Assistance for Family Caregivers is expanding to see eligible Veterans and household caregivers of each eras.

Previously, PCAFC was lone disposable to eligible Veterans who served connected oregon aft Sept. 11, 2001. This enlargement opens the programme to eligible Veterans of each eras, including those who served aft May 7, 1975, and earlier Sept. 11, 2001.

PCAFC provides caregivers of eligible Veterans with resources, education, fiscal assistance, wellness insurance, beneficiary travel, adjacent enactment and more. The programme is simply a cornerstone of VA wellness care, ensuring that Veterans get the world-class attraction they merit and that caregivers get the broad enactment they need.

“For the archetypal time, eligible Veterans of each work eras tin enactment successful the VA’s Program of Comprehensive Assistance for Family Caregivers,” says Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs Donald Remy. “We admit the captious relation household caregivers play successful caring for Veterans, and done this expansion, we’re capable to guarantee that household caregivers of each eligible Veterans person entree to the broad enactment they deserve.”

This is the 2nd enlargement of PCAFC, and it volition grow entree to the programme for tens of thousands of Veterans and their household caregivers. The archetypal enlargement of PCAFC began successful Oct. 2020, arsenic portion of implementation of the VA MISSION Act of 2018. PCAFC has added astir 20,000 progressive Veteran and household caregiver participants during the past 2 years.

Earlier this month, VA announced an interim last regularisation that volition widen PCAFC eligibility for bequest participants, bequest applicants and their household caregivers, by 3 years to Sept. 30, 2025. Legacy Participants oregon Legacy Applicants are Veterans and their household caregivers who participated successful PCAFC anterior to Oct 1, 2020.

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VA’s Program of Comprehensive Assistance for Family Caregivers is expanding to see eligible Veterans and household caregivers of each eras.

Previously, PCAFC was lone disposable to eligible Veterans who served connected oregon aft Sept. 11, 2001. This enlargement opens the programme to eligible Veterans of each eras, including those who served aft May 7, 1975, and earlier Sept. 11, 2001.

PCAFC provides caregivers of eligible Veterans with resources, education, fiscal assistance, wellness insurance, beneficiary travel, adjacent enactment and more. The programme is simply a cornerstone of VA wellness care, ensuring that Veterans get the world-class attraction they merit and that caregivers get the broad enactment they need.

“For the archetypal time, eligible Veterans of each work eras tin enactment successful the VA’s Program of Comprehensive Assistance for Family Caregivers,” says Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs Donald Remy. “We admit the captious relation household caregivers play successful caring for Veterans, and done this expansion, we’re capable to guarantee that household caregivers of each eligible Veterans person entree to the broad enactment they deserve.”

This is the 2nd enlargement of PCAFC, and it volition grow entree to the programme for tens of thousands of Veterans and their household caregivers. The archetypal enlargement of PCAFC began successful Oct. 2020, arsenic portion of implementation of the VA MISSION Act of 2018. PCAFC has added astir 20,000 progressive Veteran and household caregiver participants during the past 2 years.

Earlier this month, VA announced an interim last regularisation that volition widen PCAFC eligibility for bequest participants, bequest applicants and their household caregivers, by 3 years to Sept. 30, 2025. Legacy Participants oregon Legacy Applicants are Veterans and their household caregivers who participated successful PCAFC anterior to Oct 1, 2020.

Learn much astir the PCAFC enlargement and VA’s Caregiver Support Program, scope retired to a section CSP squad oregon telephone our Caregiver Support Line astatine 855-260-3274 Monday done Friday, 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. ET, and Saturday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET.