This special presentation helps veterans and their spouses understand and protect their legal rights. Benefits are reviewed under the 2025 New York State Guard VA Benefits Act and earlier Pension Poaching Prevention Act. The webinar covers how to identify a scam targeting veterans and understand nuances in veteran and spousal rights. The speaker discusses aide and attendance benefits and aging help from the VA versus Medicaid and how they can work together at home, in assisted living , and through VA nursing care.
Speakers: Benjamin Pomerance, Esq., Deputy Counsel, New York State Department of Veterans’ Services , with special remarks by Viviana DeCohen, Department of Veterans’ Services Commissioner
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