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Mother has Alzheimer’s and lives in memory care facility. She is the widow of a deceased army veteran. She receives ChampVA. But prescription drugs are not being paid for.

I had no problem filling out paperwork for my Mom. I went directly to the VA office with everything I thought they would need. Sure a copy of my POA was given. since my POA was written on Legal size paper, 8 x14, I had it copied and shrunk to 8x11. This helped if I needed to fax it or send as an attachment. One place inly requested the pages my Mom signed.
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You could call the VA and ask to talk to a Patient Advocate.
You could also ask to talk to a Social Worker if that does not produce the results that you want.
You could also contact the local Veterans Assistance Commission office in your/her area and see if they can help.
Keep calling.
I know this is a poor excuse but with the Shutdown there will probably be delays.
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Call your County Veteran Services for assistance with federal VA benefits and information on other local resources. Ours is located in the county courthouse. Once you make the situation clear, they will probably assign their own officer to your mom and shepherd you through the processes to get benefits for which she is eligible. Ours paid a visit to our home, filled out all the forms and submitted them.

Also, have your mom evaluated for hospice care. It doesn't matter if you think she's not ready - her Alzheimers alone may qualify her depending on their evaluation of her capabilities. If accepted, they will provide her medicines.

If you're diligent in pursuing these, you could end up with help from both places and more. I was skeptical that the VA would be much help, but they were wonderful and the $$ disability benefits are huge for my DH. I mean HUGE.
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Are you saying your Mother doesn't have an assigned PoA at all? If this is the case, and she's already in MC, then there is no ability to do this now. She needs a legal guardian. If you're not willing to take this on, then you will need to go through social services and get a judge to assign one to her.

More information for context would be helpful.
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