NJ Medicaid posts guidance on Veterans Benefit income
MedCom No. 15-08 was issued on April 29th by the NJ Division of Medical Assistance and Health Services (DMAHS) to provide instructions to applicants who receive benefits from the Veterans Administration. When a person applies for Medicaid to pay for nursing home, assisted living or home care under the MLTSS program, they need to disclose their income from all sources. Each MLTSS program has...
The V.A. permits family caregivers to be paid, but watch out if applying for NJ Medicaid
The Veterans Administration provides a Pension and Aid and Attendance benefit for wartime veterans or their widows/widowers who have low assets and whose income is below the MAPR after deducting their uncompensated monthly health care expenses. Throughout the country, vast numbers of elders are being cared for by family members. Often those family members have given up their fulltime work...
Caregiver Child Payments under Medicaid and VA Pension
In the realm of elder care, a child who resides in their parent’s home and provides the care, assistance and supervision needed to enable the parent to remain in the community is typically referred to as the “caregiver child.” Sometimes — oftentimes — the child is giving up other jobs or income in order to provide this caregiving. Frequently the parent wishes to...
No More Annual Eligibility Verification Reports for VA Pension
In welcome news for many aging veterans and surviving spouses who receive pension through the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), the VA will no longer require those recipients to file annual Eligibility Verification Reports (EVR). More information about the VA pension programs can be found in an earlier blog post at...
Non-Service Connected Disability Veterans Pension
Most veterans remain unaware that the VA can provide Veteran Pension to aging or disabled veterans even though the veteran’s disabilities are entirely unrelated to their time in service. In addition, a veteran eligible for non-service connected veteran pension may also be entitled to Special Monthly Pension if they are permanently housebound or in need of healthcare aid from another person...