Veterans Aid and Attendance Benefit
What is the Veterans Aid and Attendance Benefit?
Aid and Attendance (A&A) is a benefit paid in addition to monthly pension. Benefits may be available for Veterans and surviging spouses who require the regular attendance of another person to assist in bathing, dressing, meal preparation, medication monitoring or other various activities of daily living. This benefit is available to individuals who reside in assisted living communities, personal care homes, skilled nursing facilities and those receiving personal in-home care.
How can these benefits help someone?
Aid and Attendance can help pay for care in the home, skilled nursing facility, personal care home or an assisted living community.
A Veteran may be eligible for up to $19,728 a year, a Veteran with a dependent spouse may be eligible for up to $23,388 a year, a surviving spouse of a Veteran may be eligible for up to $12, 672 a year and two Veterans married to each other may be eligible for up to $30,480 a year.
Who is eligible?
Any War Veteran with 90 days of active duty with at least one day during active War time (WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Gulf) is eligible.
A surviving spouse of a War Veteran may be eligible if he/she remained married to the Veteran until his/her time of death and has not remarried. The only exception to this rule is if the remarriage took place after January 1, 1971 and ended before November 1, 1990.
The individual must also meet medical service and financial qualifications.
How do I find out if I am eligible?
Call your local Right at Home office and they will put you in ouch with the appropriate people to help guide you through the process. The more complete your application is, the more likely your application will be processed and accepted by the VA.
Right at Home's staff were very professional, understanding, and helpful with my family; they were willing to go the extra step and to be contacted at all hours. I was amazed how quickly Right at Home was able to get a caregiver in my Grandparents' home and help them immediately. They went through the process of finding a quality caregiver that specifically fit my Grandparents' personality and needs. It was a pretty efficient process all around.
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