{"id":131,"date":"2022-11-16T15:03:59","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T20:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/localresources.info\/2022\/11\/16\/summary-of-va-dependents-and-survivors-benefits\/"},"modified":"2022-11-16T15:03:59","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T20:03:59","slug":"summary-of-va-dependents-and-survivors-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/localresourceinfo\/2022\/11\/16\/summary-of-va-dependents-and-survivors-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"Summary of VA Dependents&#8217; and Survivors&#8217; Benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/localresources.info\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/501\/files\/2022\/11\/download-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-132\" srcset=\"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/localresourceinfo\/files\/2022\/11\/download-1.jpg 225w, https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/localresourceinfo\/files\/2022\/11\/download-1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) offers an 8 page pdf that summarizes the benefits available to families of veterans. There are a number of <a href=\"https:\/\/benefits.va.gov\/BENEFITS\/benefits-summary\/SummaryofVADependentsandSurvivorsBenefits.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">programs available to families of veterans<\/a>, including programs to serve these families even after the veteran has died. The pdf can help families identify and connect with these helpful programs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The VA also provides a supplemental toolkit for families to use for burial planning and beyond, called the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefits.va.gov\/BENEFITS\/docs\/VASurvivorsKit.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Survivors and Burial Benefits Kit<\/a>. This supplemental toolkit provides direction for pre-need planning and record storage. The toolkit can help families begin to collect and record all the information needed to connect with VA services.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can find more veteran resources by selecting the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/cincinnati.unitedresourceconnection.org\/veteran-resource-directory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">veteran resources<\/a>&#8221; option from the dropdown tab on our Social Service \u201cUtilization Library\u201d page.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>     <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-58763 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cincinnati.unitedresourceconnection.org\/files\/2022\/11\/SocialServiceNewsPodcastAdvert11.4.22.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"651\" height=\"340\"><\/center>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) offers an 8 page pdf that summarizes the benefits available to families of veterans. There are a number of programs available to families of veterans, including programs to serve these families even after the veteran has died. The pdf can help families identify <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/localresourceinfo\/2022\/11\/16\/summary-of-va-dependents-and-survivors-benefits\/\">Read More<\/a><br \/><img alt='' src='\/\/www.gravatar.com\/avatar\/84e6a10dbe9dd662c04848a4b7918597?s=32&#038;r=g&#038;d=https%3A%2F%2Funitedresourceconnection.org%2Fwp-content%2Fblogs.dir%2F1%2Ffiles%2F2011%2F08%2Fcandlesburning.jpeg' srcset='\/\/www.gravatar.com\/avatar\/84e6a10dbe9dd662c04848a4b7918597?s=32&#038;r=g&#038;d=https%3A%2F%2Funitedresourceconnection.org%2Fwp-content%2Fblogs.dir%2F1%2Ffiles%2F2011%2F08%2Fcandlesburning.jpeg 2x' class='avatar avatar-32 photo' height='32' width='32' loading='lazy' decoding='async'\/>  Shared by <a href=\"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/localresourceinfo\/membership-directory\/urcadmin\/profile\">United Resource Connection<\/a>  November 16, 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":886,"featured_media":132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10780],"tags":[10105],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-veterans-resources","tag-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/localresourceinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/localresourceinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/localresourceinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/localresourceinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/886"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/localresourceinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/localresourceinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/localresourceinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/localresourceinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/localresourceinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/localresourceinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}