Embrace the new year with the Caregiver Support Program

You have a 29% allroval rate. The program is a joke and 100% homebound and/or TBI combat vets can’t get caregiver support money to compensate their helper. Facebook readers, go to related groups, and read the horror stories out of this program.

I am one of six children of my father. He was a Korean veteran and had service connected disability 180% matter of fact with 5 service metals that he received during his 2 year tour of duty. I probably should have kept this to myself but it needs to be told about my father he was raised very poor and when the Korean war broke out my father being 16 about to turn 17 he talked my grandmother to sign in the papers and lying about his age so we join the army the infantry and by 17 and a half of age he was up past the 38th parallel into the northern border doing reconnaissance to report on the massive amount of troops build up to join in the war and for the next 6 to 8 months he was point man the rest of time he was in combat. My father is smart very meek but tough as nails and him and my mother had four children that went into the service. During the year of 2007 with my mother and father both having operations that year I come back home from working a way because I was the only sibling that had not married and my father was having health issues to stay and take care of him in 2009 my father received aid and attendance and housebound 14 months later he passed away in the VA hospital after an operation. So my mother receiving DIC and also Aiden attendance I was taking care of her and when Dad passed mom received $246 a month she gave me and returned for staying at taking care of her you see we’re not only Patriots too, it’s honored thy mother and father. In 2012 up until her passing away in the fall of 2023 I never spent one night away from her I know that’s hard to fathom but it’s a fact. In 2021 when we was in a devastating flood you’re in our hometown so after 3 weeks in a motel room that the Red Cross and put it in I called the VA hotline about 11: 30 that night after I come back from working 10 hours cleaning our home out of of the flood waters and ask them to help what took place in the conversation I’m not going to repeat it nobody done any cussing nobody got hateful them or me the only thing I know and this is a fact that we never received no help from the VA at all. So I end up cleaning the home next to ours that received less damage and removed back in and we lived here until my mother’s passing at the end of September. After my mother’s passing I contacted the VA and ask him could I please have back the last check for the month of September that she received on October. Today as I write this I’ll be 65 the middle of this month I had to take it earlier retirement because $246 was not enough and had to ask for food stamps and medical coverage just before 2001 but still no one told me about the caregiver program. So back last month when I contact the VA about the check I asked for back when I mentioned he caregiver program for calling about the check that I haven’t received back her reply was well sure you’ve already been informed that the VA gets that back that’s not yours which I knew that but she had only been dead 8 days before the check came in and I needed it to help tie up loose ends of Mom’s affairs. Believe me at your mom passing I was completely exhausted and still am exhausted to the point now where I am just sick and tired and very sick and very tired you at your whole life you don’t ask nobody for nothing that’s why we was raised and he’s getting knocked down you get back up and get knocked down and get back up when you leave this world but I am not just that I’ve got no words for what’s happening there is no set rules or actually set by laws that’s the VA has to go by on the caregiver program just in the early stages I understand that they told me that I would have had to have the veteran sign me up while I was signed up in 2009 I signed the paper myself in our local VA hospital but I never asked for nothing after that the reason I didn’t because VA gives out to the veterans and the spouses are pretty good benefit each month so we survived. And then they said will sir you supposed to take some training in order to receive that too and I thought to myself now here I am taking care of someone who spent 15 years of the earlier life working at a Masonic home for the aging what better teaching cuz I have had than that. My mother taught me three things as far as actually life and actually caregiving she said number one you had to have the patience of Joab, do the good works of James and and had the faith of apostle Paul that it well all work out. After that being said my mother lived till she was 90 years old 13 years after my father passed away. So here I sit on Saturday evening in the old flooded out house I I have no vehicle my benefits comes to me in the amount of $570. a month because the last 15 years of my life I didn’t haven’t earned income according to the government.

How do I get caregivers support funds from previous medical events and services?