Claim the pension and Aid & Attendance that too many veterans never hear about.
A simple kit for a wartime veteran or a widow. It helps you claim what you earned. Above all Aid & Attendance, which can add thousands a year for care.
- Part 1 — Start Here: The Money, Care and Survivor Map
- Part 7 — Getting Help Without Being Robbed
- Part 2 — Aid & Attendance and Housebound
- Part 3 — VA Health Care After 65
- Part 4 — Disability Compensation
- Part 5 — Survivors: What Continues
- Part 6 — Appeals: The Three Lanes
- State & County Veterans Pack (51 states)
- Part 1 — Start Here: The Money, Care and Survivor Map
- Part 7 — Getting Help Without Being Robbed
- Part 2 — Aid & Attendance and Housebound
- Part 3 — VA Health Care After 65
- Part 4 — Disability Compensation
- Part 5 — Survivors: What Continues
- Part 6 — Appeals: The Three Lanes
- State & County Veterans Pack (51 states)
- Part 1 — Start Here: The Money, Care and Survivor Map
- Part 7 — Getting Help Without Being Robbed
- Part 2 — Aid & Attendance and Housebound
- Part 3 — VA Health Care After 65
- Part 4 — Disability Compensation
- Part 5 — Survivors: What Continues
- Part 6 — Appeals: The Three Lanes
- State & County Veterans Pack (51 states)
Prices shown are each part's own list price. Totals are what the set would cost bought separately.
Right now you might be thinking…
Sound familiar?
Every one of those is covered in here. This was built for people starting from exactly that spot.
What you walk away able to do:
- ✓Learn the three levels: Basic pension, Housebound, and Aid & Attendance. And which one fits.
- ✓See if a widow or widower can get Survivors Pension and Aid & Attendance.
- ✓Know the money and savings rules, so you apply knowing where you stand.
- ✓Stay away from pension helpers who charge. VA help is free. Learn who you should never pay.
- ✓Use your State and County Pack to find the real office where you live.
…and a good deal more.
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If you only open three things, open these:
1. Start Here: The Money, Care and Survivor Map
What matters after 65, on five pages, led by the figure most people never see: $2,424 a month is the most a single veteran's pension with Aid and Attendance pays under the current rates.
2. Aid & Attendance and Housebound
The most under-claimed benefit for older veterans and their widows, and the reason is simple — people hear “low-income pension,” look at their Social Security, and stop one step too early. VA counts what is left after it subtracts what you pay for medical care, and for anyone paying for help at home that changes everything.
3. VA Health Care After 65
There is no age limit on enrolling and no deadline to do it; a veteran walking into a clinic at 79 enrols the same way as one at 25. What you pay turns on your priority group, not on when you enrolled. How the eight groups work and where you land.
4. Disability Compensation
Tax-free monthly payment for an illness or injury caused or worsened by service, with no income test and no asset test. Plenty of men in their seventies and eighties are filing a first claim now because a condition was finally added to a presumptive list — starting with the Intent to File you can submit today.
If you want nothing to slip afterwards, these do that:
5. Survivors: What Continues
Some benefits stop the day a veteran dies and some carry on in a different form. DIC and the Survivors Pension are entirely different benefits with entirely different tests — a widow can be refused one and qualify for the other, so you apply thinking about both. Read the one-year clock first.
6. Appeals: The Three Lanes
A VA “no” is a fork with three exits, and choosing right mostly comes down to one question: do you have new evidence? The wrong lane costs time. Missing the one-year deadline costs money, permanently.
7. Getting Help Without Being Robbed
Filing is free, and VA will help you develop the evidence for an initial claim at no charge. There is an entire industry built on persuading veterans otherwise, and older veterans with back pay coming are its favourite customers. Who may legally charge, who may not, and how to check.
What this is worth, piece by piece:
You save $199. That is 87% off.
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“My parents are in their 70s and I handle a lot of their paperwork. The checklists made it much easier to figure out what had already been handled and what still needed attention.”
“Before buying this, all of our retirement information was scattered between folders, websites, emails, and notes. We spent a weekend going through the package and now have an actual retirement binder and checklist.”
“Most of this information technically exists online, but it is spread everywhere. Having it organized in plain English, with links and worksheets, saved me hours.”
“There are so many retirement decisions happening at once. This gave me a step-by-step list rather than another 100-page book telling me everything that could possibly go wrong.”
Individual results. Results may vary and are not guaranteed.
What people ask me first…
I would not know where to start”
That is exactly what the first part is for — it starts from zero and tells you the next single thing to do.
I am not good with computers”
Everything is a PDF in large type you can print at home. Nothing to install, nothing to set up.
I have put this off for a while”
Then start with the one-page scan. It takes ten minutes and tells you whether the rest is worth your afternoon.
I should probably ask my daughter”
Hand it to them. The worksheets are built to be filled in together and the scripts are written to be read out loud.
30 days. You risk nothing.
If it does not help you, email us inside 30 days and we send back every penny. We will not ask you why. We never sell your name or your email.
Questions I get asked a lot
Is this easy to use?+
Yes. Plain words, big type, and step-by-step lists. If you can read a letter and gather papers, you can use this.
Can a widow get this?+
Often yes. The kit covers Survivors Pension and spouse Aid & Attendance, and how to apply.
When do I get it?+
Right away. It shows up on your screen the moment you pay. We email you a copy too.
Do I pay every month?+
No. You pay $29 one time. Nothing repeats. There is nothing to cancel.
Is this legal or benefits advice?+
No. It only teaches you. VA benefits are free to apply for. Reps the VA approves help for free. Never pay a pension helper.
Claim the pension and Aid & Attendance that too many veterans never hear about.
- Part 1 — Start Here: The Money, Care and Survivor Map
- Part 7 — Getting Help Without Being Robbed
- Part 2 — Aid & Attendance and Housebound
- Part 3 — VA Health Care After 65
- Part 4 — Disability Compensation
- Part 5 — Survivors: What Continues
- Part 6 — Appeals: The Three Lanes
- State & County Veterans Pack (51 states)
- Part 1 — Start Here: The Money, Care and Survivor Map
- Part 7 — Getting Help Without Being Robbed
- Part 2 — Aid & Attendance and Housebound
- Part 3 — VA Health Care After 65
- Part 4 — Disability Compensation
- Part 5 — Survivors: What Continues
- Part 6 — Appeals: The Three Lanes
- State & County Veterans Pack (51 states)
- Part 1 — Start Here: The Money, Care and Survivor Map
- Part 7 — Getting Help Without Being Robbed
- Part 2 — Aid & Attendance and Housebound
- Part 3 — VA Health Care After 65
- Part 4 — Disability Compensation
- Part 5 — Survivors: What Continues
- Part 6 — Appeals: The Three Lanes
- State & County Veterans Pack (51 states)
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