April 3, 2021
Hello Members and Friends of the Association,
VA Co-Payment Debts During COVID-19 to be Canceled, Refunded
VA co-payments received between April 6, 2020, and September 30, 2021,
will be waived, refunded, or forgiven under the American Recovery Plan.
The VA is canceling and refunding copayments for the following benefits:
- All medical care received through VA between April 6, 2020, and
- September 30, 2021
- All prescription medications received through VA between
- April 6, 2020, and September 30, 2021
We hope this will help Veterans and their families during this challenging time.
If you’re a Veteran who receives care through VA, here’s what this means for you:
- If you received a statement with copayments for services or medications
- received on April 6, 2020, or later, we’ll remove these copayments from
- your account. You won’t have to pay these copayments.
- If you already paid any copayments for services or medications received on
- April 6, 2020, or later, we’ll send you a refund.
- If you have unpaid copayments for services or medications received before
- April 6, 2020, we won’t require or expect you to make payments on your
- account until October 1, 2021. We won’t add any interest or fees to your accounts.
- And we won’t take any collection actions on these specific copayments.
- If you’d like to voluntarily make payments during this time, you can.
- But we won’t require or expect payments until October 1, 2021.
- Find out how to pay your VA copay bill
We don’t need anything from you at this time to process your refund.
Please check back often for updates on when to expect refunds to start.
We ask for your patience as we adjust statements and process refunds.
Joe Pruett on behalf of
Ed Pijuan
President
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