Veteran Caregiver Stipends How It Works You Qualify

It's very – It's not, as you say, Byron, comprehensive. Yes. So this is a good program. The reason it's a good program is because it puts the warfighter in charge. There's no sense of helplessness. There's no sense of being basically left out of your decision making. And I think it's a good thing. Okay, now let's talk about the benefits of the program, Byron. What is it that assists? Okay, here we have. We've got the caregiver and we've got the veteran, but it's more than that. The caregiver gets certain benefits for being a caregiver. What are those benefits? Okay, now let me clarify. These are post-9-11 veterans, service-connected. That's a requirement that there has to be a service-connected injury that necessitates their needing a caregiver in the home. So they meet those criteria. They complete the training. They then will be eligible for either one of three tiers depending on the extent of their disability as determined by their physician at the VA. So the physician reviews the disabilities and the needs of the veteran. They then meet a level of disability Need for assistance. A tier one, tier two, tier three need for assistance. Right. Okay. And once they are qualified, they go through the training and they're found to be eligible. We then submit the paperwork and then they're approved. They will then receive a stipend. benefit. It's not a paycheck. It's a stipend benefit that goes directly to the caregiver that hopefully helps them to function a little bit better financially so that they don't have to worry about needing to go out there and get a job and support the family because they're the veteran that they're taking care of, you know, maybe his or her financial problems are related to him not being able to get out there. And let me explain in plain terms what that means to a lot of people out there. If you are a caregiver in the home of a warfighter that is disabled, that has been injured, many times the amount of time it takes to take care of that warfighter will take the caregiver or the spouse, the person living there, away from what their normal job ability would be. So this is, when Byron says stipend, I don't want to be confused. It's not a paycheck, but it's money. They get a check. And the check there is to offset any losses you would be missing from a job in order to take care of that veteran. That's why the program works so well. Because whether you're a Tier 1 or a Tier 3, you're being compensated financially for what you would be losing. So it's not like you're getting a paycheck for taking care of somebody. You're just getting compensated for what you're probably losing because you're there to take care of the warfighter. That's why I like how this program is set up. Now, other than that stipend at Tier 1, Tier 2, Tier 3, now at those tiers, Byron, it's basically how much the stipend is based upon the level of care needed by the veteran. That, and it's also determined by the location. of the veteran and caregiver where they live basically. Okay. So somebody in San Francisco that lives in a high end area and there's a lot more costs associated with just living there, they're going to be rated at a higher level of reimbursement. I don't say reimbursement, that's a bad term. But the stipend is going to be larger for them. Based upon cost of living. Based upon cost of living. Okay, for the area. And they determine that based on what somebody, if they were having to pay somebody to come into the home, they try to adjust it so that it's near to what somebody that from an outside agency might be making if they came in and provided similar assistance. Okay. And we don't want to talk numbers because, you know, I don't want to talk out of school, but to those listening right now, go check out and find out what the tier one, tier two, three is. We don't really have the time to go into what levels, and there's going to be a lot of questions in that, but just understanding, you know, what that warfighter needs. Many people qualify for this. You really need to check it out.