Eligibility for hospital and domiciliary care

§ 610. Eligibility for hospital and domiciliary care (a) The Administrator, within the limits of Veterans’ Administration facilities, may furnish hospital care which he determines is needed to— (1) a veteran of any war for a service-connected disability incurred or aggravated during a period of war, or for any other disability it such veteran is unable to defray the expenses of necessary hospital care; (2) a veteran whose discharge or release from the active military, naval, or air service was for a disability incurred or aggravated in line of duty; and 72 Stat. 1142 (3) a person who is in receipt of or but for the receipt of retirement pay would be entitled to, disability compensation. (b) The Administrator, within the limits of Veterans’ Administration facilities, may furnish domiciliary care to— (1) a veteran who was discharged or released from the active military, naval, or air service for a disability incurred or aggravated in line of duty, or a person who is in receipt of disability compensation, when he is suffering from a permanent disability or tuberculosis or neuropsychiatric ailment and is incapacitated from earning a living and has no adequate means of support; and (2) a veteran of any war who is in need of domiciliary care, if he is unable to defray the expenses of necessary domiciliary care.