VA Loan Updates

Q: Based on one of your columns, I believe my sister should be receiving benefits from the VA. Her husband served in Vietnam and died 10 years ago from complications of type 2 diabetes. She lives in Mississippi. How can I assist her with a claim?A: Type 2 diabetes was added to the list of presumptive conditions from exposure to Agent Orange long after your brother-in-law’s death.

Based on the details you provided, his death should be rated as service connected. Your sister should be entitled to Dependency and Indemnity Compensation and all the other benefits for a service-connected death.

Provide me with where she lives in Mississippi, and I will contact the local veterans service office to provide assistance with her claim.

Q: I am currently using Montgomery Bill education benefits, and there is a chance I will be activated with my reserve unit. If I have to drop out of school during the semester, what will happen to my benefits?

A: If you are called up under federal authority, you have your benefits restored. If you are called up under state authority you will not have your benefits restored. You will need to provide a copy of your orders or a DD214 verifying service under federal authority.

Q: Is it possible for the widow of a veteran to use the VA home loan guarantee?

A: Only if the veteran’s death was rated as service-connected by the VA.

Q: I was awarded 50 percent disability as of December 2005, and I got lump sum payment from the VA to cover my disability from that date, and I have started to get a monthly check. However, the VA paid me as a single veteran, and I am married. I filled out the form to add my wife and sent it to them. Will they go back and pay me the difference from my award date?

A: You will get a lump sum for the difference between the single rate and the married rate, which in your case would be $67. You should have been getting $757 per month at the married rate instead of $690 at the single rate.

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