{"id":38812,"date":"2025-05-09T09:55:30","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T15:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=38812"},"modified":"2025-05-09T09:55:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T15:55:30","slug":"veterans-home-eligibility-updated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=38812","title":{"rendered":"Veterans\u2019 home eligibility updated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A measure that updates eligibility for admission to Nebraska veterans\u2019 homes passed May 9.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_37089\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37089\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"37089\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=37089\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SenLonowski_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"200,300\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Office of University Communication&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS R5&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Dan Lonowski, District 33. Legislature - 2025 Incoming Senators. November 20, 2024. Photo by Craig Chandler \/ University Communication.&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1729275045&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\\u00a9 2019, The Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska. All rights reserved.&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;147&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Mark Wilkins Lab&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SenLonowski_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Dan Lonowski&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Dan Lonowski&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SenLonowski_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37089\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SenLonowski_inline.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Dan Lonowski\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37089\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Dan Lonowski<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LB419, sponsored by Sen. Dan Lonowski of Hastings, removes an existing requirement that an individual be at least 50 years old and \u201cdependent on public charities\u201d or in need of care available only at a state institution in order to be eligible to reside in a veterans\u2019 home.<\/p>\n<p>The bill also:<br \/>\n\u2022 changes the term \u201cdomiciliary and nursing home care and subsistence\u201d to \u201clong-term care;\u201d<br \/>\n\u2022 allows veteran aid payments to be approved by a state service officer in addition to a local or county service officer; and<br \/>\n\u2022 provides an exception for application for funeral expenses from a restriction that no claimant may originate more than one claim within a 30-day period.<\/p>\n<p>LB419 passed on a vote of 47-0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A measure that updates eligibility for admission to Nebraska veterans\u2019 homes passed May 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36725,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[307],"class_list":["post-38812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government-military-and-veterans-affairs","tag-sen-dan-lonowski"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/UpdateBlogPhoto-4.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38812"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38814,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38812\/revisions\/38814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}