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VA Survivors Pension
A monthly payment for the surviving spouse or child of a deceased wartime veteran with limited income. The VA states the service conditions in terms of when the veteran entered active duty and whether they served during a covered wartime period. This is one of the most commonly missed benefits in the country, because families assume the entitlement died with the veteran. It did not.
How to apply
Apply through the VA, or ask a County Veterans Service Office to file it with you at no charge.
What we screen on
These are the rules the checker actually uses. Every one carries the source it was read from and the date it was read, so you can check us.
- Requires: surviving spouse.
What we will not tell you
We will not tell you that you qualify for this, because that is the agency's decision and not ours. We screen against the rules above, we show which ones we could check, and we say plainly when a rule exists that we do not hold.