surviving spouse veterans benefits

• U.S. Coa, Federal Circuit Rules Spouse Eligible for Veterans' Benefits Despite Separation

Even though a wife agreed to separate from her husband, this did not automatically disqualify her from receiving surviving spouse veterans' benefits upon his death, the Federal Circuit has ruled. The couple separated in 1970. Two years later the husband died of stomach cancer. The wife sought benefits as a surviving spouse.

• Lawyers USA
• July 03, 2007

• Woman Pleads Guilty to Getting Aunt's Benefits After Her Death

BANGOR - A former Waterville resident pleaded guilty Wednesday to collecting surviving spouse veterans benefits sent to her aunt for 18 months after the woman died. Lorraine M. Rich, 57, of Bradenton, Fla., faces up to 10 years in federal prison for the theft of more than $25,000 in benefits sent to her aunt Cora Thompson after the woman's death in April 2004.

• Bangor Daily News
• September 18, 2008

• Proposed Information Collection (Dependents' Application for VA Educational Benefits) Activity; Comment Request

The Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA), Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), is announcing an opportunity for public comment on the proposed collection of certain information by the agency. Under the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, Federal agencies are required to publish notice in the Federal Register concerning each proposed collection of information, including each proposed extension of currently approved collection, and allow 60 days for public comment in response to the notice. This notice solicits comments on information needed to determine a veteran's spouse, surviving spouse, or child eligibility for Survivors' and Dependents' Educational Assistance and Fry Scholarship benefits.

• Federal Register Nbr. 77 FR 3844, January 25, 2012
• Notices
• Veterans Affairs Department

• Pate v. Nicholson, (Fed. Cir. 2007)

...R. JAMES NICHOLSON, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Respondent-Appellee. Dolores E. Pate, of ...) denying her recognition as a veteran's surviving spouse for Department of Veterans Affairs ("VA") bbenefits purposes. Because Ms. Pate fails to state a claim ...

• Federal Circuits

• Non-Service-Related Death Limits Va Compensation

Dear Sgt. Shaft: Current law requires a surviving spouse receiving both survivors benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Survivor Benefits Plan to lose a dollar-for-dollar amount from SBP if the service member dies of a service-connected disability.

• The Washington Times
• June 26, 2006

• Parents Eligible for Burial

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) amends existing regulations to reflect a new statutory authority to extend eligibility for burial in a national cemetery to include parents of certain veterans, as authorized by the Veterans' Benefits Act of 2010 (the Act), enacted on October 13, 2010. The Act authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to inter the biological or legally adoptive parents of a deceased veteran if the deceased veteran is a hostile casualty or dies from a training-related injury, is interred in a VA national cemetery in a gravesite with available space, and has no spouse or child who is buried, or surviving spouse or child who, upon death, may be eligible for burial, in a national cemetery.

• Federal Register Nbr. 77 FR 4676, January 31, 2012
• Rules and Regulations
• Veterans Affairs Department

• 38 CFR 74.1 - What definitions are important for VetBiz Vendor Information Pages (VIP) Verification Program?

... a veteran, service-disabled veteran or surviving spouse, as defined in this section. Full-time mean... identified as such by VA's Veterans Benefits Administration and listed in its database of veter...

• Code of Federal Regulations - Title 38: Pensions, Bonuses, and Veterans' Relief

• Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals:

... Compensation, Death Pension and Accrued Benefits by a. Surviving Spouse or Child): Activity Under O...

• FR, October 05, 2011
• Notices
• Veterans Affairs Department

• 48 CFR 802.101 - Definitions.

...CHAPTER 8: DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS. SUBCHAPTER A: GENERAL. PART 802: DEFINITI... may be owned and controlled by a surviving spouse. Small business concern has the same meanin... of Veterans Affairs' (VA) Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) database of veterans and fami...

• Code of Federal Regulations - Title 48: Federal Acquisition Regulations System

• Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals:

... Compensation, Death Pension and Accrued Benefits by a. Surviving Spouse or Child) Activity: Comment...

• FR, July 25, 2011
• Notices
• Veterans Affairs Department