Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 9, Number 2, 1 February 1992 — Disabled vets get increase [ARTICLE]

Disabled vets get increase

Barry Raff, director of the VA Medical and Regional Office Center Honolulu, announced that compensation payments for disabled veterans increased by 3.7 percent, effective Dec. 1, 1991.

The cost-of-living allowanee was included in legislation signed by President Bush on Nov. 12. Since passage of the legislation, the VA has been working to ensure that veterans' January 1992 checks reflect the increase. The increase affects some two million veterans whose monthly payments will range from $83 for a single veteran with a 10-percent disability rating to $1,680 for a single veteran with a 100

percent disability rating. Some 341,000 survivors of service members or veterans who died from service-connected causes will also be affected by the increase.

Veterans whose service-connected disabilities are rated at 30 percent or more may receive additional allowances for dependents, based on the number of dependents and the extent of disability. A veteran with a 30 percent or higher rating also is entitled to a special allowanee for a spouse in need of the aid and attendance of another person.