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VA Aid and Attendance

An amount added to a VA pension for a veteran, or a surviving spouse, who needs help with daily activities such as bathing, feeding and dressing. Surviving spouses are eligible, which is the part families most often miss.

Administered by U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Details read from U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and checked 2026-07-28.

How to apply

Apply through VA.gov or a Veterans Service Organization.

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We are not this agency and we cannot apply on anybody's behalf. Applying is free, and no one needs to pay a third party to do it.

What we screen on

These are the rules the checker actually uses. Every one carries the source it was read from and the date it was read, so you can check us.

What we will not tell you

We will not tell you that you qualify for this, because that is the agency's decision and not ours. We screen against the rules above, we show which ones we could check, and we say plainly when a rule exists that we do not hold.

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