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Show VETERANS here's your answers Q - I'm a service disabled veteran, and I have Veterans Administration Mortgage Life Insurance coverage on my specially adapted home. How long will this coverage last? A - The insurance will cover your "wheelchair home" until the mortgage is paid off, the home is sold, or until you reach the age of 70. Q - I'm eligible for the Veterans Administration health care program, CHAMPVA, because I'm a 100 percent service-connected service-connected disabled veteran. My wife is entitled to Medicare. Can she have her prescriptions filled under CHAMPVA. A - No. Dependents eligible for Medicare are not entitled o CHAMPVA. (J - I was discharged from military service in 19G5 before , the current GI bill was enacted, enac-ted, and my eligibility expired as of May 31, 1974 - eight years after the bill was passed. Does the 1974 law which extended GI Bill benefits from eight to 10 years for veterans separated between 1955 and 19(ifi apply to me? A - If you hadn't exhausted your benefits by the former May 31, 1974 deadline, PL 93-337 (July 1974) extended them by two years, or until May 31, 1976. |