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• National Center for Benefits Outreach & Enrollment

  Serves local, state and national organizations that want to help find and enroll seniors and younger adults with disabilities in need-based benefits programs.

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• Wounded, Ill & Injured Compensation & Benefits Handbook

  Provides a handbook that helps Service Members who are wounded, ill or injured, as well as the family members who are taking care of them, navigate through the military and disability, evaluation, compensation and benefits programs that are designed to help them. This link opens a 64-page PDF document.

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• Disability Compensation Benefits

  Fact sheet from the VA on disability compensation benefits, a benefit paid to a Veteran because of injuries or diseases that happened while on active duty, or were made worse by active military service.  Includes information on who is eligible, how much the VA pays and how to apply.

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• Five Things People with Medicare Should Know

  Do you have Medicare? Have questions about what the Affordable Care Act does for you? Read the five things people with Medicare should know about the law. For more information download the brochure Medicare & You.

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• Military Benefits

  Provides detailed information and resources about military and Veteran benefits, including pay, GI Bill, Veterans Affairs home loans, health care, retirement benefits and more for active duty, Veterans and retirees.

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• What is Workers' Compensation

  Overview by the National Academy of Social Insurance on workers' compensation. Workers' compensation programs provide benefits to workers who are injured on the job or who contract a work-related illness.

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• Medicare & Other Health Benefits: Your Guide to Who Pays First

  This guide explains how Medicare works with other kinds of insurance or coverage and who should pay your bills first. Some people with Medicare have other insurance or coverage that must pay before Medicare pays its share of your bill. This link opens a 44 page PDF document.

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• Disabled Veterans National Foundation (DVNF) - GPS Home Program

  Offers direct financial assistance through grants to provide stability (GPS) to eligible Veterans to prevent homelessness. Provides assistance for necessary utilities, such as gas, water and electricity. Download the Assistance for Individual Form and fax or mail completed form to DVNF.

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• What Happens to Medicaid Buy-In Participants After They Leave the Program

  The Medicaid Buy-In program makes it easier for people with disabilities to work without losing health benefits. The program allows states to expand Medicaid coverage to workers with disabilities whose income and assets would ordinarily make them ineligible for Medicaid. This issue brief looks at Medicaid Buy-In participants who leave the program, as well as their participation in other public programs and their employment outcomes after they are no longer enrolled. This link opens a PDF document.

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• DoD Disability Severance Pay

  MyArmyBenefits provides information on disability severance pay by Army unit and service member status.

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