Health Care for Formerly Ineligible Veterans

If you have been categorized as a Priority 8 applicant in the VA health care system, you may now be eligible to enroll for care.

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced on Jan. 15, 2009, plans to re-open enrollment in its health care system to about 265,000 veterans who have been deemed Priority 8 applicants.

Priority 8 applicants are those whose incomes exceed the current VA means test and geographic means test income thresholds by 10 percent or less. VA originally suspended enrollment for Priority 8 veterans because it was unable to provide all enrolled veterans with timely access to its health care due to a tremendous growth in the number of veterans seeking enrollment at that time. VA now plans to re-open enrollment for a portion of these veterans by July 2009 without compromising the Department's ability to provide high quality health care services to all enrolled veterans who are eligible for care.

For more information or to check your eligibility, visit the VA's Web site.

 

(February 2009)