Help is on the way for tens of thousands of veterans who need someone to help care for them because of serious injuries they suffered in the line of duty.
A popular Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) program that pays family members or friends to serve as caregivers to severely injured veterans currently applies only to those who joined the military on or after Sept. 11, 2001. Under the VA Mission Act, which Congress passed in May and President Trump signed Wednesday afternoon, veterans of all eras will be entitled to caregiving assistance.