Veterans Pension Benefits: Aid and Attendance Housebound Benefits, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs website. This page summarizes veteran’s pension benefits, including an under-used benefit, called “Aid and Attendance.” This benefit may be available to your elderly loved one if he or she is a wartime veteran or a spouse or dependent of a wartime benefit, who is “housebound” and needs nursing home, assisted living or in-home assistance with the activities of daily living.
