Right at Home Patchogue - Guest Debbie Burak founder of Veteranaid.org -VA benefit

Special Guest Debbie Burak - daughter of a Veteran, and founder VeteranAid.org to assist veterans and their families with a little known VA Pension benefit. Her personal, inspirational story and her passionate mission to educate and inform others about a little known Veteran benefit. The Aid and Attendance (A&A) Pension provides benefits for veterans and surviving spouses who require the regular attendance of another person to assist in eating, bathing, dressing and undressing or taking care of the needs of nature. It also includes individuals who are blind or a patient in a nursing home because of mental or physical incapacity. Assisted care in an assisting living facility also qualifies. To qualify for A&A it needs to be established by your physician that you require daily assistance by others to dress, undress, bathing, cooking, eating, taking on or off of prosthetics, leave home etc. You DO NOT have to require assistance with all of these. There simply needs to be adequate medical evidence that you cannot function completely on your own. The A&A Pension can provide up to $1,632 per month to a veteran, $1,055 per month to a surviving spouse, or $1,949 per month to a couple*.