Veterans benefits increased.Monthly compensation payments to disabled veterans and survivors' benefits rose 2.7% in January January: see month. under legislation signed by President Bush on Oct. 25. The annual cost of living increase in veterans benefits tinder Public Law 108-363 snatches the increase to Social Security beneficiaries using a formula that takes into account the Consumer Price Index far urban wage earners and clerical workers. As in past years, the Years, The the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time increases are to be rounded down to the next lower whole-dollar amount. Those affected by the increase include some 2.5 million veterans receiving compensation for disabilities sustained or made worse during their military service, as well as wartime veterans who are totally disabled front civilian-life causes and who receive a pension under an income-based program. The increase also applies to survivors Survivors was a British television series devised by Terry Nation and produced by Terence Dudley at the BBC from 1975 to 1977. It concerned the plight of a group of people who had survived an accidentally released plague that had killed nearly the entire population of the of veterans who died in service or from a service-connected condition and those who are served by all income-based program for survivors of wartime veterans.
Service-Connected Disability Basic Compensation Rates
(Effective Dec. 1, 2004)
Monthly Rate
Disability Rating 2004 2005
10% $106 $108
20 205 210
30 316 324
40 454 466
50 646 663
60 817 839
70 1,029 1,056
80 1,195 1,227
90 1,344 1,380
100 2,239 2,299
Monthly Rate
Special Monthly Compensation 2004 2005
K $82 $84
L 2,785 2,860
M 3,073 3,155
N 3,496 3,590
O or P 3,907 4,012
R1 5,584 5,734
R2 6,404 6,576
S 2,506 2,573
Clothing Allowance $600 $616
Survivors' DIC Rates
(Effective Dec. 1, 2004)
Monthly Rate
Veteran's Pay Grade 2004 2005 *
E-1-E-6 $967 $993
E-7 1,000 1,027
E-8 1,056 1,084
E-9 1,102 1,131
W-1 1,022 1,049
W-2 1,063 1,091
W-3 1,094 1,123
W-4 1.157 1,188
O-1 1,022 1,049
O-2 1,056 1,084
O-3 1,130 1,160
O-4 1,195 1,227
O-5 1,316 1,351
O-6 1,483 1,523
O-7 1,602 1,645
O-8 1,758 1,805
O-9 1,881 1,931
O-10 2,063 2,118
* Surviving spouses of veterans who died on or after Jan. 1, 1993,
receive $993 a month. For a spouse entitled to DIC based on the
veteran's death prior to Jan. 1, 1993, the amount paid is based on
the veteran's military pay grade. Add $213 a month to the basic
rate if the deceased veteran had been entitled to receive 100%
service-connected compensation for at least eight years immediately
preceding death and the surviving spouse was married to the veteran
for those same eight years. Additionally, the monthly allowance
rate for each dependent child under age 18 is $247.
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