The Aid and Attendance (A&A) Pension provides benefits for veterans and surviving spouses who require the regular attendance of another person to assist in eating, bathing, dressing and undressing or taking care of the needs of nature. It also includes individuals who are blind or a patient in a nursing home because of mental or physical incapacity. Assisted care in an assisting living facility also qualifies.

To qualify for A&A it needs to be established by your physician that you require daily assistance by others to dress, undress, bathing, cooking, eating, taking on or off of prosthetics, leave home etc. You DO NOT have to require assistance with all of these. There simply needs to be adequate medical evidence that you cannot function completely on your own.
The A&A Pension can provide up to $1,632 per month to a veteran, $1,055 per month to a surviving spouse, or $1,949 per month to a couple.

ELIGIBILITY FOR THE AID & ATTENDANCE PENSION
Any War-Time Veteran with 90 days of active duty, 1 day beginning or ending during a period of War, is eligible to apply for the Aid & Attendance Improved Pension. A surviving spouse (marriage must have ended due to death of veteran) of a War-Time Veteran may also apply. The individual applying must qualify both medically and financially. To see the periods of war that have been qualified by Congress ,Click Here

Please call us for more information or you can contact the VA directly @ 800-827-1000. We are NOT affiliated with the Veterans Administration.

It is difficult to determine how long the application process will take since each claim is individualized. If there is a severe medical need you can expect it to take approximately 90 days or less, if properly documented. The average claim usually takes about 4 to 9 months, but can take a year or more if your application is wrong or is missing critical information. However, most families are in need of this benefit in a timely manner. The Aid & Attendance Pension payments are retroactive to the first of the following month after you submitted the claim when you start services or move.