The purpose of this post is to educate veterans who are not familiar with the VA Caregiver Program.

The VA has a Caregiver Program to support veterans who have VA ratings of 70% or higher to compensate the spouse or any other qualified adult that provides material support to the veteran. Definitely work with the VA for help and entitlements.

If a veteran's caregiver applies and is accepted into the program, the spouse or caregiver will receive renumeration of around $1900/month or $2900/month. That is a nice chunk of change. The amount depends on the severity of the disability and the amount of help a caregiver provides.


You can get an overview of the program at this site: VA Caregiver Support Program Home

Good luck getting accepted. This program seems to have been defunded. When it first was adopted it seemed to work the way it was supposed to. Then they reviewed and denied everyone I know who is part of it. Several friends who are double amputee's with other compounding issues all of whom have had their wives removed from the program.
Questions to the VA result in circular responses and the best anybody I know can figure out is the program was defunded but nobody wants to tell anybody because it was a popular funding item with congress.

CT'97 said:

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Good luck getting accepted. This program seems to have been defunded. When it first was adopted it seemed to work the way it was supposed to. Then they reviewed and denied everyone I know who is part of it. Several friends who are double amputee's with other compounding issues all of whom have had their wives removed from the program.
Questions to the VA result in circular responses and the best anybody I know can figure out is the program was defunded but nobody wants to tell anybody because it was a popular funding item with congress.

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I have heard it's difficult to be accepted into the program as well. A couple years ago, the VA changed the criteria for being in the program and were on the verge of kicking the vast majority of the veterans out of the program. I got the impression the VA was hell bent on reducing the number of qualified veterans and caregivers for the program.

I believe congress got wind of this and told the VA to take a different tack. I don't know the strategic direction of the Caregiver Program. Right now, it seems to be in a holding pattern. The concept of the program is good, but the execution of it is not.

I've been onboarding with the VA since December.

Offered a full time job in December after a successful internship and interview.

Hiring freeze in January. Got funding approved in July for the position offered. I had to interview again for the exact same position because mine was "abolished". Offered the job again after the interview two weeks ago.

Now I wait…..again

Sounds like my hiring process with the Corps of Engineers. Applied for the job. Heard back a year later after I forgot I applied. Interviewed. Heard back 3 months later. Interviews again. Job no longer funded. Same job opens again a couple months later. Apply. Hear back 6 months. Hired 3 months later.

Teslag said:

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Sounds like my hiring process with the Corps of Engineers. Applied for the job. Heard back a year later after I forgot I applied. Interviewed. Heard back 3 months later. Interviews again. Job no longer funded. Same job opens again a couple months later. Apply. Hear back 6 months. Hired 3 months later.

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How do you like working for the Corps of Engineers?

Meh. It's boring. Decent pay, pension, little chance I ever get fired. Basically just like ever my federal job.

Teslag said:

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Meh. It's boring. Decent pay, pension, little chance I ever get fired. Basically just like ever my federal job.

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Is the consolation you don't have to work your ass off?