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title: "Kentucky VA Aid & Attendance | Funding LTC Marketplace"
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description: "How VA Aid and Attendance fits with Kentucky Medicaid income rules, Kentucky's four State Veterans Centers and the VA's $90 nursing-facility pension rule."
last_updated: 2026-10-20
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Kentucky · VA Benefits

# Kentucky VA Aid & Attendance

Last updated 2026-10-20

Aid and Attendance adds a monthly payment on top of a qualifying veteran's or survivor's VA pension. VA eligibility criteria include needing regular help with activities such as bathing, feeding, or dressing; being bedridden due to illness; being a nursing-home patient because of a disability-related loss of ability; or meeting specified vision criteria.

A person can't collect Aid and Attendance and Housebound benefits at the same time. Anyone applying from a nursing home also needs to submit VA Form 21-0779, and the VA decision is entirely separate from whatever Kentucky Medicaid decides — approval under one program doesn't determine the outcome under the other.

Kentucky adds two features worth coordinating with the federal benefit: four State Veterans Centers serving veterans around the state, and a Kentucky-specific $90 nursing-facility VA pension rule that interacts with how Medicaid treats a resident's income in a facility setting.

## Kentucky figures

- State Veterans Centers: 4
- VA nursing-facility pension rule: $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/)
- [Kentucky Medicaid: Nursing Facility Services](https://www.chfs.ky.gov/agencies/dms/provider/Pages/nursingfacilities.aspx)

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

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