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Veteran’s Benefits A Guide to Sources of Unearned Income 15 Veteran’s Benefits Veterans of service in the U.S. Armed Forces who were discharged under conditions other than dishonorable, are provided more than 40 different benefits and services by the Federal government. Benefits are also paid to a veteran’s survivor and, in some circumstances, to the families of living veterans. Some of the benefits administered by the Veterans’ Administration are listed below. 1. Compensation for service-connected disability. 2. Pension for non-service-connected disabilities for veterans of World Wars, the Korean conflict, and the Vietnam era. (There is no special service pension for Spanish-American War veterans.) 3. Compensation to survivors of service members who died in service or from a service- connected cause. 4. Pensions for survivors of veterans who served during the Spanish-American War, the World Wars, the Korean conflict or the Vietnam era and died from a non- service- connected cause. 5. U.S. government and National Service Life Insurance including protection against disability, Veterans Special Life Insurance. Under commercial programs supervised by the Veteran’s Administration, Serviceman’s Group Life Insurance and Veterans Mortgage Life Insurance is available. 6. Payment toward the veteran’s burial expenses, plus an American flag to drape the casket. 7. Medical service, such as hospitalization, nursing home care, examinations, outpatient medical and dental treatment, and prosthetic devices. 8. Domiciliary care. 9. Home, farm and business loans. An individual’s financial status may impose limitations on available services and benefits when the basis of eligibility is not a service-connected disability. Special payments are made by the Veteran’s Administration to a widow, widower, divorced wife, parent, or child of a deceased veteran if all of the following conditions are met. The veteran died after 1956: 1. While in the service; or 2. As a result of service performed after September 15, 1940; and 3. The veteran was not insured under the Social Security Act; or 4. The survivors are entitled to monthly Social Security benefits if the veteran had been insured under the Social Security Act; and the survivor is not disqualified from receiving