Mississippi Administrative Code
Title 25 - Military and Veterans - Veterans' Home Purchase Board
Part 102 - Organization
Chapter 4 - Veterans Nursing Homes
Rule 25-102-4.6 - Seventy Percent (70%) Service Connected Veterans
Current through September 24, 2024
A. There shall be no State Veterans Nursing Home resident daily charge for those residents in need of nursing home care for a VA adjudicated service-connected disability; or who have a singular or combined service-connected rating of seventy percent (70%) or more based on one or more service-connected disabilities or a rating of total (100%) disability based on individual unemployability and are in need of nursing home care.
B. The SVAB may not accept drugs and medicines from the VA on behalf of those veterans in need of nursing home care for a VA adjudicated service-connected disability; or who have a singular or combined service connected rating of seventy percent (70%) or more based on one or more service-connected disabilities or a rating of total (100%) disability based on individual unemployability and are in need of nursing home care.
C. State Veterans Affairs Board may reimburse State Veterans Home daily care charges retroactive to March 21, 2007, for eligible 70% service-connected State Veterans Home residents and for residents whose service-connected disabilities require State Veterans Home care
Miss. Code Ann. § 35-1-27 (Supp. 2010).