New VA Regulations for Aid & Attendance: The Look-Back Period and Transfer Penalties
The big news coming out of the regulations is that the VA is imposing a 36-month look-back period on asset transfers. For planners, the news is a bit of a mixed bag. As will be discussed, while the imposition of a look-back period and transfer penalty at all is a tremendous change in how veterans plan for the pension benefit, there are some differences that benefit the veteran.

Elizabeth (“Beth”) Boehmcke graduated cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School in 1993. After graduation from law school through 2003, she specialized in high net worth estate planning, with an emphasis on cross-border and asset protection planning, and the representation of fiduciaries managing complex trusts and family businesses.
During her career in New York, she was an associate attorney at both Rogers & Wells (now Clifford Chance) and Hodgson Russ in New York City. After a hiatus in her legal career to care for her children, she resumed her legal career by passing the Virginia bar in 2014 and began working for the Hook Law Center, P.C., where she expanded her estate planning practice to include elder law, specifically focusing on asset protection planning for Medicaid and Veteran’s benefits.
She is a proud graduate of the University of Virginia where she received a B.A. with distinction in Psychology in 1988 and is also a graduate of SUNY-Buffalo where she received an M.A. in Clinical Psychology in 1990.
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