I think an example may help to clarify this or to give you a better understanding.
The caregiver recognition benefit is for the caregivers of veterans who are the most seriously injured. What about the veteran who can use a spoon and a fork to feed themselves—which is one of the activities of daily living—but cannot go out of the house to go and buy the groceries? That falls upon their family members or whoever is providing care for them.
How do we define “family”? How do we define who is a caregiver? We feel there may be a great deal of unfairness here, and it will be the focus of one of our upcoming investigations.
I hope to be able to report more fulsomely at that time.