Pennsylvania Blind Veterans Pension

County Director of Veterans Affairs in your Pennsylvania county, with the Pennsylvania Department of Military and Veterans Affairs

$150 per month

You receive $150 a month if a service-connected injury or disease left you blind.

Check eligibility

How to apply

Contact the County Director of Veterans Affairs in the county where you live, not the state. You can also email RA-MVVeteransPension@pa.gov.

What you'll need

Your DD214 showing an honorable discharge, proof you were a Pennsylvania resident when you entered service, and medical or VA documentation of your vision loss and its service connection.

Eligibility

You received an honorable discharge
You were a Pennsylvania resident when you entered the U.S. Armed Forces
You suffered a service-connected injury or disease that caused loss of vision
Your visual acuity with correcting lenses is 3/60 or 10/200 or the equivalent or less in your better eye, or the widest diameter of the visual field in your better eye has contracted to an angular distance of no more than 20 degrees

Source

Official source

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