Earlier this month, the Veterans Administration finally transferred long-overdue benefits to an HSLDA member family. “Happy Dance! Money deposited to our account yesterday!” the family wrote to us in an email.
The payment brought an end to a five-year-long dispute over the family’s veteran’s benefits. The father is a disabled veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps. Because of his disability, he is entitled to benefits from both Social Security and the Department of Veterans Affairs. These benefits also extended to his dependent daughter.
Under Social Security and VA rules, the daughter was still eligible for these benefits after she turned 18, as long as she was a full-time student. When she turned 18 in December 2008, she was being homeschooled through high school. Despite this, the Social Security Department and the VA cut off her benefits. The family contacted HSLDA for assistance.
We were able to get the Social Security benefits restored quickly. The VA benefits, however, were a different story.
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