1 The term "widow" includes the widower of any female veteran if he is incapable of self-maintenance and was permanently incapable of self-support due to physical or mental disability at the time of the veteran's death. ? Includes widows and children of Confederate veterans.

3 World War I, II, and Korean conflict widows or children on pension rolls prior to July 1, 1960, may elect pension income limitations and rates applicable at that time. (Income limit: $1,400 if single; $2,700 with dependents. Rates: Widow only, $50.40; widow with 1 child, $63.00; each additional child, $7.56. No widow, 1 child, $27.30; no widow, 2 children, $40.95; no widow, 3 children, $54.60; each additional child, $7.56.)

Discretionary authority is granted VA for a finding on net worth of a widow or child which could lead to a determination that the applicant is not eligible for pension because of such net worth.

(See Rate tables above.) In determining annual income, all payments from any source (including waived income) are included except: (1) Payments of the 6-months' death gratuity; (2) donations from welfare organizations; (3) VA payments of pension, compensation, dependency and indemnity compensation, insurance or servicemen's indemnity; (4) social security lump sum death payments; (5) retirement benefits equal to contributions; (6) amounts equal to amounts paid for the veteran's just debts and expenses of last illness and burial not reimbursed by the Veterans Administration; (7) proceeds of fire insurance policies; and (8) earned income of children. Same.

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Eligibility of children.

unless the purported remarriage is void.

Pension payable to a person
unmarried and under age
18, unless prior to age 18,
such person has become per-
manently incapable of self-
support; or if over 18, while
pursuing a course of instruc-
tion in an approved educa-
tional institution, but not
beyond age 21. Includes
legitimate child; child le-
gally adopted by veteran,
or, under certain conditions,
by spouse within 2 years
after veteran's death; step-
child, if member of vet-
eran's household; illegiti-
mate child, as to father
only, if acknowledged in
writing signed by him or if
he has been judicially or-
dered to contribute to
child's support or has been,
prior to his death, judicially
decreed to be the father of
the child, or if he is other-
wise shown by evidence sat-
isfactory to the Administra-
tor of Veterans' Affairs to
be the father of the child.

Living

2,673,000

Average Age: 66

Includes 1,476,000 who also served in World War II. Participants in the War of the Revolution, War of 1812, Mexican War, Indian wars, and Spanish-American War, and Union Forces of the Civil War. Living veterans include 36,000 Indian war and Spanish-American War veterans and 103,000 former members of the Regular Establishment (peace-time service) on VA compensation rolls. Includes veterans serving in Korean Conflict.

4 Includes veterans serving in World War II.