Ancillary Benefits ANCILLARY RATINGS Clothing Allowance Vocational Rehabilitation

Ancillary Benefits

ANCILLARY RATINGS Clothing Allowance Vocational Rehabilitation Dependents Educational Assistance CHAMPVA 17. 270 Loan Guaranty Competency/Incompetency Special Monthly Compensations Aid and Attendance 38 CFR 3. 810 38 CFR Part 21 38 CFR 3. 807 38 CFR 3. 805 38 CFR 3. 353 38 CFR 3. 350 38 CFR 3. 352

CLOTHING ALLOWANCE • Eligibility: • service-connected disability that requires a prosthetic or orthopedic device that wears out clothing. or • veteran uses medication for a skin condition that causes damage to outer garments.

CLOTHING ALLOWANCE CONT: • Benefit: • Annual Payment • Payment $741. 00 • Benefit effective August 1 annually • Payment date September 1 st • VA Form 10 -8678, Application for Annual Clothing Allowance

VOC REHABILITATION - CH 31 • Service connected condition must be: • 10 percent with a serious handicap, or • 20 percent with an employment handicap, and • be discharged or released from military service under other than dishonorable conditions. • Service member pending medical separation from active duty may apply, but the disability rating must be at least 20 percent.

VOC REHABILITATION CONT: • Period of Eligibility: – 12 years from the latter of the following: – date separated from active military service, or – date veteran was notified of a qualifying service-connected disability rating. – NOTE: Eligibility period may be extended if Vocational Rehabilitation determines the veteran has a Serious Employment Handicap

VOC REHABILITATION CONT: BENEFITS: maximum of 48 months VA pays cost of services training at a college, vocational, technical or business school • subsistence allowance for participate • On-The-Job Training, apprenticeships, and non-paid work experiences • work study with VA • •

VOC REHABILITATION CONT: • • Benefits (Cont): evaluation to determine abilities, skills, interests, and needs counseling and rehabilitation planning employment services use of special employer incentives case management, counseling, and referral independent living services Application: VA Form 28 -1990, Disabled Veterans Application for Vocational Rehabilitation

Dependents Educational Assistance (DEA) The Survivors' and Dependents' Educational Assistance (DEA) program offers education and training opportunities to eligible dependents of Veterans who are permanently and totally disabled due to a service-related condition or of Veterans who died while on active duty or as a result of a service-related condition.

Dependents Educational Assistance (DEA) Benefits may be used for degree and certificate programs, apprenticeship, and onthe-job training. If you are a spouse, you may take a correspondence course. Remedial, deficiency, and refresher courses may be approved under certain circumstances.

Dependents Educational Assistance (DEA) Institutional Training Time Monthly rate Full time $1, 021. 00 ¾ time $765. 00 ½ time $508. 00 less than ½ time and more than ¼ time $508. 00 ** ¼ time or less $255. 25 **

Dependents Educational Assistance (DEA) You may receive up to 45 months of education benefits. Effective Oct. 1, 2013, some DEA beneficiaries may be eligible for up to 81 months of GI Bill benefits if they use the Survivors and Dependents Educational Assistance program in conjunction with an entitlement from other VA education programs.

Dependents Educational Assistance (DEA) You must be the son, daughter, or spouse of: • A Veteran who died or is permanently and totally disabled as the result of a service-connected disability. The disability must arise out of active service in the armed forces. • A Veteran who died from any cause while such permanent and total service-connected disability was in existence. • A Service member missing in action or captured in line of duty by a hostile force. • A Service member forcibly detained or interned in line of duty by a foreign government or power. • A Service member who is hospitalized or receiving outpatient treatment for a service connected permanent and total disability and is likely to be discharged for that disability. This change is effective Dec. 23, 2006.

CHAMPVA The Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Department of Veteran's Affairs (VA) (CHAMPVA) is a comprehensive health care benefits program in which the VA shares the cost of covered health care services and supplies with eligible beneficiaries. The program is administered by the Chief Business Office Purchased Care located in Denver, Colorado. Due to the similarity between CHAMPVA and the TRICARE program (sometimes referred to by its old name, CHAMPUS) the two are often mistaken for each other. CHAMPVA is a VA program, whereas TRICARE is a Do. D regionally-managed health care program for active duty and retired members of the uniformed services, their families, and survivors. In some cases a person may appear eligible for either program. However, anyone eligible for TRICARE is not eligible for CHAMPVA.

CHAMPVA To be eligible for CHAMPVA, you cannot be eligible for TRICARE/CHAMPUS, and you must be in one of these categories: • The spouse or child of a Veteran who has been rated permanently and totally disabled for a service-connected disability by a VA regional office OR • The surviving spouse or child of a Veteran who died from a VA-rated service connected disability OR • The surviving spouse or child of a Veteran who was at the time of death rated permanently and totally disabled from a service connected disability OR • The surviving spouse or child of a military member who died in the line of duty, not due to misconduct (in most of these cases, these family members are eligible for TRICARE, not CHAMPVA). If you are in one of the above categories and you are over the age of 65 and have Medicare Part A entitlement, at any age, in most cases you must also have Medicare Part B. Please submit a copy of your Medicare card when you enroll in CHAMPVA.

CHAMPVA • If you have questions about CHAMPVA: Visit the Inquiry Routing & Information System (IRIS) website to search Frequently Asked Questions or ask a question on-line • Enrolled beneficiaries may review their program and claims at the CHAMPVA website • Call 1 -800 -733 -8387, (Monday through Friday from 8: 05 a. m. to 6: 45 p. m. Eastern Time)

Loan Guaranty VA helps Service members, Veterans, and eligible surviving spouses become homeowners. As part of their mission to serve you, they provide a home loan guaranty benefit and other housing-related programs to help you buy, build, repair, retain, or adapt a home for your own personal occupancy. VA Home Loans are provided by private lenders, such as banks and mortgage companies. VA guarantees a portion of the loan, enabling the lender to provide you with more favorable terms.

Competency/Incompetency VA's Fiduciary Program was established to protect Veterans and other beneficiaries who, due to injury, disease, or due to age, are unable to manage their financial affairs. VA will only determine an individual to be unable to manage his or her financial affairs after receipt of medical documentation or if a court of competent jurisdiction has already made the determination.

Competency/Incompetency Upon determining a beneficiary is unable to manage his or her financial affairs, VA will appoint a fiduciary. The fiduciary, normally chosen by the beneficiary, must undergo an investigation of their suitability to serve. This investigation includes a criminal background check, review of credit report, personal interview, and recommendations of character references. Only after a complete investigation is a fiduciary appointed to manage a beneficiaries VA benefits.

Competency/Incompetency The fiduciary is responsible to the beneficiary and oversees financial management of VA benefit payments. Generally, family members or friends serve as fiduciaries for beneficiaries; however, when friends and family are not able to serve, VA looks for qualified individuals or organizations to serve as a fiduciary.

Special Monthly Compensation • Special Monthly Compensation (SMC) are payable for physical, mental and functional loss of use. For example: – (k) Loss of creative organ – (s) Aid and Attendance or Bedridden – (l)-(n) Functional loss of bilateral extremities

Aid and Attendance • Aid and Attendance or permanent bedridden is defined by the inability of the claimant to dress or undress himself (herself), or to keep himself (herself) ordinarily clean and presentable, inability of claimant to feed himself (herself). • “Bedridden” will be that condition which, through its essential character, actually requires that the claimant remain in bed. The fact that claimant has voluntarily taken to bed or that a physician has prescribed rest in bed for the greater or lesser part of the day to promote convalescence or cure will not suffice.

Aid and Attendance • Aid and Attendance is not a benefit by itself. • It is a benefit added to an existing Compensation, Pension, Survivor Pension or Death Indemnity Compensation award.

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