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Veterans Corner
When a veteran dies the
surviving spouse, children
and parents may be eligible
for benefits from the
Veterans Administration.
Family members may be
eligible for one or more
benefits based upon the circumstances of the death of
the veteran. The Veterans
Administration may provide Dependents Indemnity
Compensation, DIC as it is
referred to. This is a monetary benefit that is tax-free
and is not income based for
a spouse or children. It is
also available for parents
but is income based.
Dependents
Indemnity
Compensation may be paid
to the surviving spouse,
children or parents of a
service member who was
killed on Active Duty, or for
a veteran who died from a
service-connected disabili-
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Death Benefits
ty.
A Death Pension is available as an income supplement for a low-income surviving spouse and/or children of a veteran. The veteran must have served during a wartime period, and
income and net worth must
be within specified limits.
Burial benefits include at
no charge, a headstone, a
burial flag, as well as a
Presidential letter of recognition of the veteran's service. Burial Allowance
monies are available to offset the cost of the burial.
Burial Allowance can be
paid for a veteran who died
from a service-connected
disability or was in receipt
of VA compensation at the
time of death.
Finally
under
the
Dependents Educational
Assistance (DEA) Program,
Health Matters
By Joe Wright
both the surviving spouse
and children may be entitled to education and training opportunities. These
benefits may be used for
degree and certificate programs, apprenticeship, and
on-the-job training. If you
are a spouse, you may take
a correspondence course.
Remedial, deficiency, and
refresher courses may be
approved under certain circumstances. The veteran
must have died or is permanently and totally disabled
as the result of a serviceconnected disability.
The
Kings
County
Veterans Service Office
issues Veteran I.D. cards to
honorably discharged veterans. Contact Joe Wright if
you would like to receive
periodic veteran's information by email. There are
many state and federal ben-
efits and programs available
to veterans and their
dependents. To find out if
you are eligible for any of
these benefits, visit or call
our office. We can and will
assist you in completing all
required application forms.
You can get information on
the Web from the Kings
County Veterans Service
Office
webpage
at
www.countyofkings.com.
Joe Wright, retired Navy
Master Chief Petty Officer,
is the Veterans Service
Officer for Kings County.
Send your questions to the
Veterans Service Office,
non-economic damages that
can be assessed in medical
negligence lawsuits to over
$1 million dollars from the
current cap of $250,000.
This means that the patient
would have he right to sue a
doctor for anything they
were displeased with,
which would cause many
doctors to resume fewer
cases and limit their availability causing a vast
decline in physicians.
The disadvantages of
this proposition have outweighed the advantages, as
proven by the polls.
Supporters of the this initiative referred to it as the
Troy and Alana Pack
patient safety Act of 2014,
named after two children
who were killed by a under
the influence driver intoxicated with alcohol and prescription drugs. This is a
very important lesson for
physicians to be aware of,
even though the measure
was defeated, physicians
should remember the
Hippocratic oath they are so
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to be devoted to as they pursued their medical career.
In summary, supporters
of Proposition 46 argued
that medical negligence is
too common and pain and
suffering damage awards
are too low. Opponents said
the initiative wasn’t about
protecting patients, but
increasing medical lawsuit
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Highlight: California proposition 46
Election day on Tuesday
November 4, many measures were put up to the test
for the decision-making
across the country. One of
which was proposition 46,
the medical malpractice
lawsuits and cap and drug
testing of doctor initiative,
was defeated. Even though,
this proposition did not
receive the kind of votes it
was intended too, physicians can now take a
breathe of relief. This
proposition was initiative
would have required drug
and alcohol testing of doctors and those who tested
positive would be reported
to California Medical board
who would than take disciplinary action. Health care
workers could also report
physicians if they suspected
any alcohol or drug impairment and medical negligence.
This may not be all that
bad, so why wouldn’t it
pass? Because there’s more,
the initiative would have
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