VA AID AND ATTENDANCE ALLOWANCE (VA A&A) SR 96-16, 03/96 (FAM-A)

Payments from the Department of Veterans Affairs to a veteran or spouse who is blind or nearly blind, helpless or nearly helpless, and requires the aid and attendance of another person.

Treatment: Excluded Income.

Exception: Applicants and recipients of nursing facility care, HCBC-ECI, HCBC-DD and HCBC-ABD services have VA A&A treated as follows:

- exclude in the gross eligibility determination, and

- consider as unearned income in the net income computation. See Chapter 600, Section 611.01, Computing Eligibility.