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If you’re a survivor of a veteran, you may qualify for a benefit from the VA called dependency and indemnity compensation or DIC. DIC is a tax-free monthly benefit from the VA that’s paid to eligible survivors. Typically, this is going to be spouses, minor children, and in some cases, the parents of service members who died under one of several circumstances. First, uh the veteran may have died while on active duty or in the line of duty. Another alternative are uh veterans whose service connected
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disabilities substantially or materially caused their death or contributed to their cause of death. Or the third scenario where eligible survivors might qualify is if the veteran was evaluated as totally disabled due to a service connected disability for a certain period of time prior to the veteran’s death. So, as long as you are an eligible survivor and the veteran died under one of those three scenarios, you could potentially qualify for this monthly tax-free benefit. The amount of the monthly benefit um changes
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year-toear. The most current information on the monthly benefit rates can be found on VA’s website, va.gov. And the way that the monthly benefit is calculated depends on when the veteran died. If the veteran died on or after January 1st, 1993, the payment for an eligible surviving spouse or child is going to be around $1,700 a month. If the veteran died before January 1st, 1993, the monthly payment is going to be dependent on the rank of the veteran um who passed away. This starts at around $1,700 for
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veterans who were enlisted and it can go all the way up to more than $3,800 per month for really high ranking officers.
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