Veterans

Laura Lynn’s Home Care is proud to be a contracted home care agency for the Veterans Administration’s Homemaker/Home Health Aide Service. This benefit allows a VA contracted home care agency, with Certified Home Health Aides (CHHA), to provide veterans with direct, in-home assistance with ADLs.

As a VA contracted home care agency, Laura Lynn’s Home Care can provide in-home assistance with ADLs, in addition to meal preparation, medication reminders, light housework, laundry, transportation and more.

Veterans may be eligible for the Homemaker/Home Health Aide benefits if they have served at least six months of active duty with an honorable discharge and are a registered Veteran in the state of Oklahoma. A physical assessment from a VA Primary Care Physician (PCP) is also required.

For More Information on Homemaker/Home Health Aide Service Benefit, Call 405.418.2961

Additional Information for Veterans

If you are a veteran of wartime service, are 65 years or older and on a limited income, you may qualify for a VA pension without being disabled.

Veterans Pension Eligibility

• You were discharged from service under other than dishonorable conditions AND
• You served 90 days or more of active duty with at least 1 day during a period of war time AND
• You are permanently and totally disabled, or are age 65 or older AND
• Your countable family income is below a yearly limit set by law

Survivors Pension

• A tax-free monetary benefit payable to a low-income, un-remarried surviving spouse and/or unmarried child(ren) of a deceased Veteran with wartime service.

Aid & Attendance & House Bound Benefits

• A tax-free monetary benefit payable to a low-income, un-remarried surviving spouse and/or unmarried child(ren) of a deceased Veteran with wartime service.

Eligibility

The deceased Veteran must have met the following service requirements:

• For service on or before Sept 7, 1980, the Veteran must have served at least 90 days of active military service, with at least one day during wartime period.
• Was discharged from service under other than dishonorable conditions. Survivor’s pension is based on your yearly family income.

For more information, including income requirements and applications visit: www.benefits.va.gov/PENSION or call 1-800-827-1000

Aid & Assistance

Aid and Attendance is a benefit paid in addition to monthly veteran pension and disability compensation. A&A can help cover the cost of in-home care, assisted living, or nursing home. This benefit may not be paid without eligibility to pension.

A veteran may be eligible for A&A when:

• The veteran requires the aid of another person in order to perform personal functions required in everyday living, such as bathing, feeding, dressing, attending to the wants of nature, adjusting prosthetic devices, or protecting him/herself from the hazards of their daily environment, OR
• The veteran is bedridden, in that his/her disability or disabilities requires they remain in bed apart from any prescribed course of convalescence or treatment, OR
• The veteran is a patient in a nursing home due to mental or physical incapacity, OR
• The veteran is blind, or so nearly blind as to have corrected visual acuity of 5/200 or less, in both eyes, or concentric contraction of the visual field to 5 degrees or less.

For more information about Laura Lynn’s Home Care’s veterans services, please call (405) 418-2961.