  A Banach space operator $A\in B({\cal{X}})$ is polaroid, $A\in {\cal{P}}$, if
the isolated points of the spectrum $\sigma(A)$ are poles of the operator; $A$
is hereditarily polaroid, $A\in{\cal{HP}}$, if every restriction of $A$ to a
closed invariant subspace is polaroid. Operators $A\in{\cal{HP}}$ have SVEP on
$\Phi_{sf}(A)=\{\lambda: A-\lambda$ is semi Fredholm $\}$: This, in answer to a
question posed by Li and Zhou (Studia Math. 221(2014), 175-192), proves the
necessity of the condition $\Phi_{sf}^+(A)=\emptyset$. A sufficient condition
for $A\in B({\cal{X}})$ to have SVEP on $\Phi_{sf}(A)$ is that its component
$\Omega_a(A)=\{\lambda\in\Phi_{sf}(A): \rm{ind}(A-\lambda)\leq 0\}$ is
connected. We prove: If $A\in B({\cal{H}})$ is a Hilbert space operator, then a
necessary and sufficient condition for there to exist a compact operator $K$
such that $A+K\in{\cal{HP}}$ is that $\Omega_a(A)$ is connected.
