Improved Pension Eligibility Verification Report - Veteran With Dependent Children

Pre-printed by VA. Verify accuracy, especially address. Corrections should be noted clearly.

(pre-printed; verify)

Common mistakes

• ×Not updating a changed address - pension mail sent to wrong address.

Report all income for you, your spouse, and dependent children. Children's SSA survivors benefits, wages, and other income must be included unless you have filed for exclusion (21P-0571).

e.g., Veteran SSA: $16,800/yr; Child SSA survivors: $3,840/yr

Common mistakes

• ×Not reporting children's Social Security survivors benefits - these are income unless excluded.

Authority

• 38 CFR 3.3 - Eligibility criteria for veterans pension: wartime service, discharge character, income below MAPR, and net worth below threshold.

For each child on your award: confirm they are still living, confirm their current age, and confirm whether they are in school (if 18-23). Report any child who has turned 18 and is not in school, or who has turned 23 and aged off, or who has married, or who has died.

e.g., Emily Smith (DOB 06/15/2010) - living, age 15, at home.
Timothy Smith (DOB 03/22/2004, age 22) - enrolled full time at ASU.

Common mistakes

• ×Not reporting that a child turned 18 and left school - dependency ends and pension is adjusted.
• ×Not filing 21-674 separately for school approval when a child is 18-23 in school.

Authority

• 38 CFR 3.52 - Defines dependent children including biological, adopted, stepchildren, and helpless adult children.
• 38 CFR 3.667 - Continued benefits for dependent children in school.

Sign and return by the deadline. Missing the deadline suspends your pension.

(signature/date)

Common mistakes

• ×Missing the deadline.