Additional health benefits for veterans fully effective - Communication

Secretaria Regional da Saúde e Segurança Social

The Regional Secretariat for Health and Social Security reports that the additional health benefits for veterans - pensioners and non-pensioners - are now fully effective.

"The regulatory circulars have already been published. As such, we are now able to grant those benefitting from the Veterans' Statute 100% support for the part of the medication not reimbursed by the National Health Service," stressed Mónica Seidi.

The Regional Secretary recalled that this waiting period was inevitable because the ordinance published at a national level did not include either the Island Health Units within the Regional Health Service or the Regional Health Directorate, so "a financial mechanism had to be created to make these payments."

"This is exactly what we did. We solved this legal impediment to grant this much-deserved support to those entitled to it," she pointed out.

For veterans to benefit from complementary support, the doctor must expressly mention Ordinance no. 372-C/2024/1 of December 31 on the prescriptions. If not explicitly stated on prescriptions, veterans may benefit from this complementary support if they qualify for the special medicines reimbursement scheme under the Veterans' Statute and are duly registered in the National Health Users' Register.

Mónica Seidi noted that "it is essential to remind users of the following: they should request proof of their status as pensioner and non-pensioner veterans from the Directorate-General for National Defence Resources."