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Surviving spouses, dependents, parents, and select others may also get flat-rate burial allowances upon a veteran's death, up to $2,000 for a service-connected death. andresr/istockphoto
Alimony, also called aliment (Scotland), maintenance (England, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Wales, Canada, New Zealand), spousal support (U.S., Canada) and spouse maintenance (Australia), [1] is a legal obligation on a person to provide financial support to their spouse before or after marital separation or divorce.
The Veterans Pension provides monthly payments to wartime veterans who meet certain age or disability requirements and have limited income and net worth. The Survivors Pension, also known as the Death Pension, offers monthly payments to the surviving spouses and unmarried dependent children of deceased wartime veterans.
It passed the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee and passed during House floor debate on November 2, 2009. [8] A team from the Military Spouse Business Association, Rebecca Noah Poynter, Joanna Williamson, Rikki Winters, Lynn Carroll, Lanette Lepper, and Kara Acosta, led a support campaign to include a Facebook site of military families.
Serving in the U.S. military can be both exhilarating and terrifying for military families, particularly if their loved one is sent to an area of combat or into other dangerous situations. While ...
VA loans are designed for military members, veterans and their spouses. Spouses can qualify for a VA mortgage by being an active service member, a veteran or by being a civilian co-borrower on a ...
Spouses of veterans gain loan eligibility if: [5] 1. They are unmarried, and their deceased spouse died as a result of service-connected causes. 2. They remarry after the age of 57, and their deceased spouse died while on active duty. 3. They are the spouse of an active duty member who has been missing in action or a prisoner of war for at ...
The Uniformed Services Former Spouses' Protection Act (or USFSPA) is a U.S. federal law enacted on September 8, 1982 to address issues that arise when a member of the military divorces, and primarily concerns jointly-earned marital property consisting of benefits earned during marriage and while one of the spouses (or both) is a military service member. [3]