Health Care Eligibility

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Health Care Eligibility -

The Department of Veterans Affairs offers a Medical Benefits Package that emphasizes preventive and primary care, and offers a range of inpatient as well as outpatient services. The Department uses a priority system that ensures that veterans with service-connected disabilities and those below the low-income threshold are still able to receive the Package.

In order for many veterans to receive the benefits offered in this package, it is necessary for them to be enrolled in a VA Health Care System. Those veterans that do not need to be enrolled in a VA system apply to one or more of the following conditions: they have been determined by VA to be 50% or more disabled from service-connected (SC) conditions, they are seeking care for a VA rated service-connected disability only, or it has been less than one year since they were discharged for a disability that the military determined was incurred or aggravated by their service, but that VA has not yet rated.

ALL VETERANS ARE POTENTIALLY ELIGIBLE FOR THE BENEFITS PACKAGE!

Veterans eligible for these benefits must have been on active military service in the Air Force, Army, Marines, Navy, or Coast Guard (Merchant Marines during WWII). The character of discharge is examined to determine eligibility of veterans. Veterans with an honorable discharge, a general discharge or a discharge under honorable conditions are not at risk of not receiving these benefits. There is also a 24 continuous months of active duty service requirement that is waived for: former enlisted persons who started active duty before September 8, 1980; and former officers who first entered active duty before October 17, 1981.

Some veterans who served as reservists or in the National Guard who were called to active duty by a Federal Executive Order, may qualify for the Medical Benefits Package offered by the Department of Veterans Affairs.

All returning service men and women, including Reservists and National Guard members, who served on active duty in combat, have a special eligibility for hospital care, medical services, and nursing home care for the 2-years following their discharge from active duty.

EVEN VETERANS WHO DID NOT SERVE IN COMBAT ARE ELIGIBLE!

Other groups of Veterans my be eligible for the Medical Benefits Package. Female veterans are eligible for the Package as well.

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