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As a retired service member and someone who has worked in the mental health field several years after my retirement, I fail to see how a once a year tax credit is going to help in the present. If you do not have insurance to cover the cost for psychotropic medications and counseling, the mental health clinic or hospital is not going to give you treatment on credit. If the PTSD or mental health diagnosis and symptoms are severe enough, then that means you probably are having difficulty holding down a job as well. Psychotropic medications alone can run into a thousand plus dollars monthly and that does not include the costs of counseling. This still leaves an individual no difference in getting treatment but what is already available (e.g. community mental health clinics operating on sliding fee scales or the VA). A tax credit only works for those who have limited symptoms and have a regular and substantial source of income monthly, then they can be reimbursed with the yearly tax credit.