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The Veterans Administration offers its wartime veterans (and their surviving spouses) a special pension called the Aid and Attendance Benefit.  This benefit is intended to help veterans (and their surviving spouses) pay for long term care.  This benefit is often misunderstood or unknown.  We prov...
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I just read an article about the upcoming shortages of skilled nursing facilities. We see a cyclical pattern around here. At one point all the facilities have waiting lists, and a few months later clients have their pick of facility for immediate admission.  As the article stated, some facilities l...
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Anytime that the VA believes that a veteran cannot handle money themselves, the veteran must go through the VA's fiduciary process.  In our practice, we generally see this when there has been a diagnosis of any type of dementia.  For service connected veterans there may be other factors, such as P...
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If you itemize your deductions on your tax return, you may be familiar with medical deductions. Typically we think of health insurance, copays, prescriptions and OTC medications as contribution to this line item. The truth is that many expenses related to care are also countable as medical deduction...
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