VA Family Caregiver Benefits for 'Legacy' Veterans Extended Through 2025

The Department of Veterans Affairs will extend benefits through 2025 for veterans who joined its family caregiver program under the original eligibility criteria, it announced Thursday.

The extension for the veterans and their caregivers, known as "legacy" participants, will run through Sept. 30, 2025, while the VA continues to review the program, including eligibility criteria that were changed in 2020 as the department prepared to expand the program to veterans from all eras -- a requirement of the 2018 Mission Act.