TEXAS STATE VETERANS HOMES
Eligibility for Admission

To be eligible for admission to a Texas State Veterans Home, an applicant must require long-term nursing care as determined by a physician and meet the following criteria as a Texas veteran:

• Be a citizen of the Unites States; and
• Have been a resident of Texas at the time of entry into the service, or
• Have resided in Texas continuously for the one year immediately prior to application for admission (military residency excluded); and
• Be a "veteran", as defined in 38 USCA 101 within one of the following categories:

1. Veterans with service-connected disabilities;
2. Veterans who are former prisoners of war;
3. Veterans who were discharged or released from active military service for a disability incurred or aggravated in the line of duty;
4. Veterans who receive disability compensation under 38 U.S.C. 1151;
5. Veterans whose entitlement to disability compensation is suspended because of the receipt of retired pay;
6. Veterans whose entitlement to disability compensation is suspended pursuant to 38 U.S.C. 1151, but only to the extent that such veterans' continuing eligibility for nursing home care is provided for in the judgement or settlement described in 38 U.S.C. 1151;
7. Veterans who VA determines are unable to defray the expenses of necessary care as specified under 38 U.S.C. 1722(a);
8. Veterans of the Mexican border period or of World War I;
9. Veterans solely seeking care for a disorder associated with exposure to a toxic substance or radiation or for a disorder associated with service in the Southwest Asia theater of operations during the Persian Gulf War, as provided in 38 U.S.C. 1710(e);

• Veterans who agree to pay to the United States the applicable co-payment determined under 38 U.S.C. 1710(f) and 1710(g); and
• Have been discharged other than dishonorably.

Additional eligibility for admission is extended to:

• The spouse of a living Texas veteran;
• The unmarried surviving spouse of a Texas veteran whose home of record at the time of entry into the service was Texas; and
• Gold star parents, all of whose children died while serving the U.S. Armed Forces.