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Not necessarily looking for advice, just sharing my frustration and hindsight. My parents have been working on getting veterans benefits for my 86 year old grandmother for weeks. Today they were informed that, because she remarried after my grandfather passed, she is no longer entitled to any. She and my grandpa met in high school, married while he was serving in WWII, had 2 kids, and were together until the day he died. Years later, in her 60's, she remarried, only to have this husband die a few months later. She got nothing from him, money wise. It's not like getting married again made her better off financially. DH#2's money went to his kids, of course. now she can't benefit from the years her first husband served. She should never have remarried. If only she had known that at the time. It's just frustrating.
that is why so many elders chose to live together and/or lie about actually being married. Nobody of any age should consider something legal like marriage without taking into consideration the financial ramifications, and with the government there are always ramifications.
I'm sorry about your Grandmother. Was she told this by an official or just somebody giving advice?
that is why so many elders chose to live together and/or lie about actually being married. Nobody of any age should consider something legal like marriage without taking into consideration the financial ramifications, and with the government there are always ramifications.
I'm sorry about your Grandmother. Was she told this by an official or just somebody giving advice?
she was told by a lawyer. They are going to keep trying.
This situation can affect a lot of different benefits. For Federal retirees, it can affect health insurance benefits in various ways and perhaps pensions. I would have to research since it did not affect me directly I only partially listened to the speaker. But i do remember the health insurance issues of remarriage.
I'm the OP and things haven't improved in the past year. Now my parents have been told that grandma doesn't qualify for DH#1's vet benefits because she remarried AND she doesn't qualify for DH#2's because they weren't married long enough! (1 year, I think, is required??) He died about 4 months after they got married.
That's a rough spot. It's sad when some people fall into "the pit". But these limits are necessary due to fraud.
I hope someone else will hear your Grandmother's story and benefit from it.
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