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VA to partially open Category 8 Enrollment
21 January 2009
VA To Start Enrolling Category 8 Vets In June.In a recent press release, the VA "announced plans to begin partially opening up the health care system to new Category 8 veterans by increasing the income threshold by about 10 percent. New Category 8 veterans - those with incomes above a geographically adjusted amount of approximately $29,000 - have been prevented from enrolling in the VA system since January 2003." However, the "110th Congress gave" the VA "an extra $375 million in funding to begin opening up the system." The VA "is expected to begin enrolling these veterans in June."