Military Times – This week, the Elizabeth Dole Foundation (EDF) submitted comments to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs over its proposed rules to improve and standardize the VA Program for Comprehensive Assistance for Family Caregivers (PCAFC), more commonly known as the VA Caregiver Program. EDF’s recommendations were developed by our policy experts, in collaboration with our Dole Caregiver Fellows who represent the 5.5 million Americans providing care to a loved one wounded, made ill, or injured during their military service. While VA’s proposed rules address many challenges for which EDF has long advocated, we remain concerned regarding how the department plans to implement such a robust and ambitious program for millions of veteran caregivers nationwide, given the two years of delays implementing the VA Mission Act of 2018.
