The Veterans Benefits Administration offers an incapacity money available to war veterans who did serve in a period of war or to their surviving spouses. This special benefit is officially called “pension” but is more generally called the “vets aid and attendance pension benefit”. For a pension benefit for vets younger than 60 5, proof of total of incapacity must be supplied.

Veterans sixty five and older do not need to be disabled. This VA aid and attendance benefit often increases every December based essentially on the systems cost-of-living index employed by Social Security. Fundamentally, that’s’s the VA aid and attendance benefit will change by the same p.c. that Social Security changes their benefit. The suitable arms of service are armed forces, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard and for WWII the ocean-going Merchant Sea civil service crew-member. The vet might have been discharged under honorable conditions to be admissible. The Vet or widowed better half must be disabled, but the Vet doesn’t have to get hurt in a war or be retired from the division to be accepted for this money! You have just got to be a Vet ( or widowed partner of a Vet ) who had an Honorable Discharge…and were in the regiment during a period of war. The Vet doesn’t need to serve in a war section or anything more.

They just need to have 90 days of active military duty with one of those days served in an official war time.

This allowance will not pay the use bill, etc…. It’s just for CARE or MEDICAL help. If qualified, the Widowed Partner of a Vet could get as much as $998 month. Vet could get $1554, and a pair could get $1842.

( These amounts increase every year. ).