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VA will discontinue the requirement for enrolled Veterans to complete an annual Financial Assessment, commonly known as a Means Test. This eliminates a Veteran’s annual reporting burden.
Use VA Form 10-10EZR if you already receive VA health care benefits, and you need to update your personal, insurance, financial, or military service history information.
These limits may affect your VA health care eligibility and costs. Some Veterans are eligible for free care for non-service-connected conditions based on their VA disability rating, pension payments, or other factors (like receiving the Medal of Honor).
A means test is a gathering of financial information by which VA determines your priority group for enrollment, and whether or not you are required to make copayments for the service you...
"Above the means test and below the GMT threshold," is defined as those veterans whose attributable income and net worth are such that they are able to defray the expense of care, but whose inpatient medical care co-payments are reduced 80 percent.
Applicable VA pension income thresholds are used to determine eligibility for cost-free medications and/or beneficiary travel benefits. For Geographic-Based financial assessment (means test) information refer to http://www.va.gov/healthbenefits/resources/gmt
VA Form 10-10HS, Request for Hardship Determination, is used to collect information from Veterans who are in a copay required status for hospital care and medical services, but due to a loss of income project their income for the current year will be substantially below the VA means test limits.