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Benefits
Compensation benefits are paid to veterans who are disabled by disease
or injury incurred, or aggravated, during military service.
Pension benefits are paid as an income supplement for veterans of
wartime service who are permanently and totally disabled due to non-service-connected
disabilities. Widows and children of veterans who died of non-service-connected causes
also are eligible for pension benefits.
The Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment program is
designed to assist service disabled veterans and service members whose disabilities
constitute a handicap in obtaining suitable employment. Counseling Psychologists and
Vocational Rehabilitation Counselors provide counseling to help veterans and service
members arrive at sound decisions about their employment goals. Also, counseling is
provided as requested or required by regulation for the children and spouses of veterans
who died or were permanently and totally disabled as the result of service-connected
disabilities.
All Section 901, Chapter 32, educational assistance benefit
payments to beneficiaries are processed by the Waco Regional Office. This responsibility
includes awarding, computing, and maintaining payment records for both subsistence and
assistance payments. The program, which is administered by VA on behalf of the Department
of Defense, has the potential of 6,700 beneficiaries.
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