ICYMI: Hassan-Backed Veterans Package Will Help Veterans Receive In-Home Health Care and Other Benefits

WASHINGTON – In case you missed it, WMUR and the Union Leader recently reported on Senator Maggie Hassan and colleagues’ bipartisan legislation to expand access to in-home health care for veterans, among other measures. The legislation, which was recently signed into law by President Biden, strengthens health care for veterans and includes provisions to strengthen surviving spouse benefits, caregiver mental health support, and other benefits for veterans and their families.

Read more from WMUR here and from the Union Leader here or below:

WMUR: Biden signs veterans bill co-sponsored by Sen. Maggie Hassan into law

By Marissa Barrett

MANCHESTER, N.H. — Veterans will receive better health care and other benefits under a bill President Joe Biden signed into law Thursday night.

The law expands in-home care to veterans by covering services at the same rates as nursing home care.

It also creates a program for the Department of Veterans Affairs to hire home health workers and allows surviving spouses of some service members who died on duty to retain education benefits if they remarry.

Sen. Maggie Hassan co-sponsored the bill.

Union Leader: Hassan says bipartisan law will keep vets getting care at home

By Kevin Landrigan

[…] President Joe Biden recently signed the bipartisan law that Hassan helped introduce. Advocates said the law is the greatest expansion of Veterans Administration services since the PACT Act that in August 2022 extended billions in new health benefits for veterans and survivors exposed to burn pits, Agent Orange and other toxic substances,

The law includes 90 sections addressing such critical issues as long-term care, mental health resources, education, job training, and Veterans Administration modernization.

Clearly the most important one will increase reimbursement for “non-institutional care” such as home-based services to the same level of support given to a veteran in a nursing home.

“While we can never fully repay the debt that we owe to veterans for their service to our country, this bipartisan legislation is one way that we can provide more veterans and their families with the support that they have earned and deserve,” said Hassan, whose late father was a World War II veteran of the Battle of the Bulge.

[…]

###