Become a Veterans Benefits Consultant
Veterans, who represent a significant portion of our senior population (see stats), are vitally interested in obtaining veterans benefits regardless of their income or assets. Using our training, incorporating our marketing solutions, and utilizing our business strategies will bring them to you and possibly create clients that you could not have gotten in any other way.
In addition, working with veterans brings the possibility of working with their children. This is because the children are often involved in motivating their parents to do some planning for inheritance or eldercare. Thus the senior & veterans markets can result in two-for-one business opportunities.
The Veterans Benefits Consultants Package that we offer to you (professionals & care providers) is designed to help you expand your business. This package will differentiate you from your competitors by enabling you to offer new solutions to veterans and their families to pay for the cost of care.
You can expect the following from using our veterans benefits consultants package:
- Extensive training in all areas of veterans benefits & a sound understanding of how to conduct a compliant practice.
- A myriad of innovative business strategies to earn income while assisting veterans and their families.
- An increase in the number of inquiries for your services as a result of our advertising and promotional efforts (see markeintg portion). The National Care Planning Council's consultants package is particularly focused on providing you a number of useful and effective marketing tools. This includes your own veterans benefits consultant web site & listings on our sites.
- * If you are an attorney, you can expect to charge fees for estate planning, legal advice, tax planning, caregiver contracts and prefiling consultations in conjunction with veterans benefits. These new clients represent an untapped market for your services.
- * If you are an adviser or insurance specialist, you should expect to receive commissions or fees for your services or products with a certain number of veteran households that seek out your help.
- * If you are a facility or a home care provider and you can apply some of the strategies we discuss in this chapter and in our operations manual, you should be able to tap into a segment of the market that you have not served previously. These are folks who have moderate income and few assets but still need your services.
Entire Package sells for only $1,595.00
The cost also includes membership with the NCPC for one year. The cost after the first year is only $19.00 a month. This maintenance cost includes your lead service, updates, your website hosting and basic membership in the NCPC. If you have already purchased the 2008 Aid & Attendance Handbook, we will discount $100.00 from the price. If you are already a member, we will discount the $90.00 from the price.
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It is important that if you hold yourself out as someone understanding veterans long term care benefits you are conversant in all long term care benefits that are available to elderly veterans, their dependents or surviving spouses. It's also important for you to know about the 12 types of long term care benefits available through the health care system as well as understanding all of the benefit programs available from the Veterans Benefit Administration. This includes not only Compensation and Pension, but SMC, DIC, death benefits, Death Pension, disability stipends and so on. In addition it's also important to understand the additional benefits through the cemetery administration division. Our package will educate you in these matters.
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Helping Your Clients Obtain a Pension Award
Using the Aid and Attendance Handbook
Unless you are already proficient in the area of Pension claims, you cannot expect to learn this information on your own. Those practitioners who already provide this service are not normally willing to share their expertise with other people. There may be an occasional seminar that can teach you these principles, but many of these gatherings may not provide all of the necessary details.
We believe our new book "Aid & Attendance Handbook for Professionals & Consultants" is the most complete source of information currently available. The book (included in the package) is packed with 496 pages of useful information. Here are some of the topics that are covered:
- A description of the VA internal claims process for Pension
- A chapter about state veterans homes
- A chapter about veterans health care that includes a description of 12 long term care services available through that system and information about how to apply for veterans health care
- Information about HISA grants
- A chapter about veterans disability income programs and death benefit programs
- A detailed chapter on how claims for Pension are submitted
- Hundreds of pages of examples, rules and regulations governing Pension claims
- Sample cases for processing and planning for pension claims using software provided with the book
- Over a hundred pages of forms and worksheets used in the Pension process
- An in-depth analysis of the legal restrictions governing claims representation including 30 pages of pertinent statutes, regulations and correspondence
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The Importance of Dovetailing with Medicaid
Those who qualify for Pension can restructure their finances and give away assets in order to qualify for the benefit. There is no penalty from VA to do this if it is done properly. But you must always consider that these types of financial restructurings will cause penalties if the people you're helping eventually need to apply for Medicaid. Therefore it is extremely important that your consulting practice also includes strategies for dealing with Medicaid eligibility. For this reason we include in the consulting package a book on Medicaid planning strategies.What is a Veterans Benefits Consultant & when should a family use a veterans benefits consultant.
Who is eligible for the Veterans Aid & Attendance pension benefit?
Using aid & attendance to pay any person for care at home, for professional home care, for assisted living, or to pay for a nursing home.
The application process for aid and attendance Pension.
Why are less than 5% of all veterans & their surviving spouses receiving a benefit?
The National Care Planning Council, we promote and support planning for long term care.
An individual acting as a consultant must be careful not to violate any federal statutes and VA regulations pertaining to representation of veteran claimants. At the NCPC, we recognize our responsibility to assist you regarding these matters & have ensured that this package offers extensive guidance on what we believe constitutes a compliant veterans benefits consulting practice. Intergity & honesty are at the heart of our business. We expect those who purchase this package to maintain high ethical standards in all areas of their consulting practices. Furthermore, we would like to express our gratitude and support for those who display stewardship, compassion, care, & integrity while working with seniors & thier families.
