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TRICARE Health Care Benefits
TRICARE is another comprehensive health coverage for family members of certain Veterans. These include the following retirees or deceased:
- Service member
- National Guard soldier
- National Guard soldier
- Medal of Honor recipient
TRICARE provides coverage for health care services, dental plans, and prescription medicines. It also offers specific benefits to children of Vets with special needs.
TRICARE is a program managed by the Department of Defense. Also, please note that those qualified for TRICARE may no longer qualify for CHAMPVA.
The Program of Comprehensive Assistance for Family Caregivers (PCAFC)
As a son or daughter of a Veteran, you may qualify for PCAFC. With this, you can obtain necessary caregiver education and training. You can receive counseling as well as mental health services.
The PCAFC can also provide the following benefits for caregiving children of veterans:
Travel and lodging cost coverage when traveling with the Veteran for healthcare purposes.
Financial assistance for healthcare-related travels with the Veteran Monthly stipend.
The PCAFC does require both the child and the Veteran to apply together. The Vet must also need continuous personal care services for no shorter than six months.
The Camp Lejeune Family Member Program
This is another healthcare-based survivor benefits for children of veterans from the V.A. One of the key qualifications is that your parent must have served at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina. The program also qualifies children of those who served at the Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) in N.C.
In addition, you must have lived with your Veteran parent in any of these two places for at least 30 straight days. This should have occurred between August 1953 and December 1987. The drinking water in these places during that time was later on found to have contaminants.
Studies revealed that Camp Lejeune had a 10% higher cancer rate than Camp Pendleton. Camp Pendleton never had its water contaminated.