The founder and CEO of the largest company serving the state’s elderly citizens is urging South Carolina’s Congressional delegation to find ways to help veterans realize they may be missing out on billions of dollars in benefits.
Speaking Tuesday at the S.C. State Chamber of Commerce’s annual Washington Night, Agapé Senior founder and president G. Scott Middleton of West Columbia said, “there are tens of thousands of veterans in South Carolina who may be eligible for VA benefits, but either are not aware of the possibility, or don’t believe this could be true, or just simply do not know how to do the paperwork.”
Middleton said he learned about the dilemma as part of his research on issues involving the aging when he was writing his latest book, Parent Talk: The Nine Conversations To Have With Your Aging Loved Ones.
Agapé Senior is a statewide company headquartered in West Columbia that serves the needs of elderly citizens and employs 1,300 South Carolinians.
Middleton, a member of the Board of Directors of the S.C. Chamber of Commerce, said his company is trying to solve the communication problem by conducting seminars at Agapé facilities in Columbia, Irmo, Lexington, West Columbia, Rock Hill, Conway, Garden City, Laurens, and at many other locations across the state. Direct mail is used to invite veterans and their spouses to Agapé facilities where they can discuss their eligibility at no cost.
Middleton told the delegation, “I am here today to urge you all to help get this information to our heroes so that they can access the benefits that they so richly deserve. “
Veterans or their widows are likely missing out on billions of dollars a year nationwide. Widows are hit the hardest. “Only one in seven widows who possibly could qualify actually receive checks. These men and women were there for us. Now we need to be there for them,” said Middleton.
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