Dear Savvy Senior: I understand that the Department of Veterans Affairs has a benefit that can help veterans and spouses with long-term care costs. We recently had to move my elderly father into an ...

The Veterans Administration does indeed have an underutilized benefit that can help wartime veterans and their surviving spouses pay for a variety of long-term care costs. This benefit, called “Aid ...

When combined, the Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) and Dependency and Indemnity Compensation (DIC) can offer a steady stream of ...

Even military families often don’t know what benefits are available to the surviving family of an active-duty service member.

The VA Veterans Pension is need-based and provides monthly cash assistance for wartime veterans who meet certain criteria.

As the law now stands, the surviving spouse of a soldier who dies in service to the country receives a lower rate of compensation than survivors of federal civilian employees killed while performing ...

I understand that the Veterans Administration has a benefit that can help veterans and spouses with long-term care costs. We recently had to move my elderly father into an assisted living memory care ...