Enhanced or Special Monthly Pension Aid and Attendance or Housebound
What is enhanced or Special Monthly Pension?
Aid and Attendance Benefits and Housebound Allowance | VA.gov |
Aid and Attendance (A&A) is a higher monthly pension amount paid to a Veteran or surviving spouse. You may be eligible if one (or more) of the following is true:
- You require help to perform activities of daily living. These include bathing, feeding, dressing, toileting, adjust prosthetic devices, meal preparation, medication management or protection from environmental hazards due to mental or physical incapacity.
- You are bedridden. This means your disability requires you to stay in bed when you are not receiving treatment.
- You are a patient in a nursing home due to mental or physical incapacity.
- You have corrected visual acuity of 5/200 or less in both eyes.
- You have concentric contraction of the visual field to 5 degrees or less.
Housebound
Housebound is an increased monthly pension amount. It is paid to permanently disabled Veterans who are greatly confined to their homes. Veterans may qualify for this increased amount if one of the following is true:
- You have a single permanent disability evaluated as 100-percent disabling. Because of this, you are permanently confined to your immediate location.
- You have a single permanent disability evaluated as 100-percent disabling and another disability (or disabilities) evaluated as 60-percent or more.
