Gold Star Spouses Describe Pain of Losing Bereavement Benefits in Remarriage For Gold Star spouses, the pain of losing their husbands in the line of duty can be almost unbearable.
Restoring Full VA Burial Benefits for Vets Who Initially Chose Plaque or Urn Part of Bill Introduced in Senate The bill would correct a flaw from previous legislation that lawmakers say has forced veterans' families to forgo a burial at...
2025 Guide to Pay and Allowances for Military Service Members, Veterans and Retirees A 14.5% pay raise for junior enlisted service members and an average 5.4% increase in the Basic Allowance for Housing are...
2025 Survivors Pension Rates The VA Survivors Pension is a tax-free benefit for low-income orphans and widows of deceased wartime veterans.
What Benefits Are You Eligible For as a Spouse of a Disabled Veteran? Spouses of disabled veterans are eligible for many benefits, but getting them can be difficult. We make it easy with this...
2025 VA Dependency and Indemnity Compensation (DIC) Rates Dependency and Indemnity Compensation is a monthly benefit paid to eligible survivors of deceased service members or veterans...
Here Is the VA Dependency and Indemnity Compensation Rate for 2025 Survivors will receive a slightly-below-average increase in 2025.
The Next Deadline for Backdated PACT Act Payments Is Coming Soon. Here’s What You Need to Know Those vets or family members who hadn’t yet filed a PACT Act claim but instead declared their “intent to file” a claim ahead...
New Rule Gives Maximum Pell Grants to Children of Fallen Service Members A new rule takes effect July 1 that expands higher education benefits to more children of fallen service members, while also...
Anguish, Uncertainty: 66 Families Wait to Bury Loved Ones Amid Suspension of Horse-Drawn Funeral Services at Arlington The caisson platoon, the Army's military horses that transport caskets of fallen service members to their Arlington burial...
Pentagon Diverts $1 Billion from Army Barracks to Fund Border Mission The Pentagon is shifting $1 billion meant for maintaining and renovating Army barracks to instead fund its surge of troops to...
Coast Guard Vet Turned Porn Actress Pleads Guilty to Killing Man in Cuyahoga Valley National Park A Coast Guard veteran who later became an actress in adult films admitted to killing a man in the Cuyahoga Valley National...
Coast Guard Fires Commander of Its Largest Operational Base Garrison commander Capt. David Melton was responsible for logistics, personnel support, facilities and naval engineering, and...
Services Ordered to Cut PCS Moves by 50% over Next 5 Years The services are tasked with cuts that amount to an initial 10% of the $5 billion PCS budget in 2027 and that increase...
Hegseth Orders Review of Defense Department's Support for Homeschooling A memo released Tuesday directs the Defense Department to examine its educational support and resources for families who...
![Families awaiting horse-drawn services at Arlington National Cemetery](http://images04.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2024-05/1time-collage-arlington-caisson-story-1200.jpg?itok=vKRlIgvo "Retired Lt. Col. Theodore "Ted" Felber with his wife Barbara Jane (top left). Retired Command Sgt. Maj. James Cobbett (bottom left) and with his wife Ruth (center left). Retired Col. Jim Ifland (right). (Photos courtesy of Felber, Cobbett and Ifland families)")
