Official from the Department of Veterans Affairs identified nearly 11,000 surviving spouses of deceased veterans who will receive a lump-sum payment before the New Year to correct an error in their VA benefits. Also documented were more than 73,000 who had been previously paid. VA officials are still tracking down eligible survivors. For more information, read the full article on Military.com.
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Survivors to Get Retroactive VA Payments
Week of January 05, 2009
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