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The State Veterans Home — Gold Star Parents Admitted Alongside Veterans and Spouses

The home at Bennington describes itself as a community for all veterans of military service, not only those who served in wartime, and admits spouses and Gold Star parents alongside them.

Verified August 22, 2026

What this benefit is

The home at Bennington describes itself as a community for all veterans of military service, not only those who served in wartime, and admits spouses and Gold Star parents alongside them.

What it's worth: Long-term care at the state home; veterans, spouses and Gold Star parents

  • The home states no wartime requirement — it describes itself as a community for all veterans of military service.
  • Eligibility is confirmed by the admissions team rather than by a published rule set; what a resident pays is not published.

Who is entitled to it

  • Your discharge papers support an application.
  • You are in this state.

Not sure whether that describes you?

Answer a few questions about this benefit specifically — we only ask what this one actually depends on, and we stop as soon as we know.

How to claim it

  1. 1Contact the admissions office first and have them confirm eligibility, because the home does not publish the full rule set and its team applies it.
  2. 2Assemble the application, advance directives or other requested documents, current medical records, and discharge papers — a DD-214 or a VA HINQ.
  3. 3Complete and include VA Form 10-10EZ. It travels with the application rather than after it.
  4. 4If you are a spouse or a Gold Star parent, say so at the first contact: both are named as eligible alongside veterans, and neither is obvious from a general description of a state veterans home.
  5. 5Ask what a resident pays and which payer sources the home accepts, because neither is published.
Form
Veterans' Home application, with VA Form 10-10EZ
File with
The Veterans' Home admissions office
Documents you will need
dd214 · va benefit summary letter
No renewal
Once granted it does not need renewing.
Worth knowingGold Star parents being admitted in their own right is the distinctive part, and it is stated plainly on the admissions page rather than buried in a policy. A bereaved parent with no other route into long-term care should ask about it directly.
Known gapThis record is tier C on purpose. The home publishes who may apply and what to send, and does not publish residency requirements, levels of care, what a resident pays, or the payer sources it accepts. Every one of those is a question for the admissions team, and none of them is asserted here.

Sources

Why only one source type: The home's own admissions page is the only page read this session that states who may be admitted. The state veterans office's site does not carry a page on the home, and the legislature's statute server refused connections.

This finder provides an informational match, not a government eligibility determination. The responsible agency decides your application.