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title: "Arizona VA Aid & Attendance | Funding LTC Marketplace"
url: https://fundingltcmarketplace.com/states/arizona/va-aid-attendance/
description: "Arizona excludes VA Aid and Attendance from non-MAGI Medicaid income. Learn about the three Arizona State Veterans Homes and the VA's $90 pension rule."
last_updated: 2026-10-20
author: George A. Mellendorf, CLTC, LTCP (Central States Insurance Services, Inc.)
publisher: Funding LTC Marketplace
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Arizona · VA Benefits

# Arizona VA Aid & Attendance

Last updated 2026-10-20

VA Aid and Attendance adds a monthly payment on top of VA pension for qualifying veterans and survivors who need help with everyday activities like bathing, feeding, or dressing, who are a nursing-home patient due to a disability-related loss of ability, or who meet specific visual-impairment criteria. It cannot be paid alongside the separate VA Housebound benefit.

Arizona's non-MAGI Medicaid rules treat the underlying VA pension differently from the Aid and Attendance add-on. AHCCCS counts ordinary VA pension as unearned income, but it excludes Aid and Attendance and Housebound allowances from that count, and it also excludes a reduced $90 VA pension. That distinction matters for ALTCS budgeting specifically — it's not a reason to assume every VA payment gets excluded automatically.

## Arizona figures

- Reduced VA pension excluded from income: $90

## Sources and official resources

- [U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs: Aid and Attendance and Housebound](https://www.va.gov/pension/aid-attendance-housebound/)
- [U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs: Veterans Pension Rates](https://www.va.gov/pension/veterans-pension-rates/)
- [AHCCCS: ALTCS coverage for long-term care needs](https://www.azahcccs.gov/Members/GetCovered/Categories/ALTCS.html)

Rules and figures change. Confirm current details with the agency before you act.

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