What does D&IC stand for?

Subjects include remarks on practice before the VA, disability compensation, claims processing, dependency and indemnity compensation, pensions, and judicial appeals of administrative decisions.

2243) would increase dependency and indemnity compensation (DIC) by 12 percent and eliminate the offset between DIC and the Survivor Benefit Plan benefits.

The Gold Star members successfully pushed for the passage of a law that says spouses who remarry after age 57 can keep the Veterans Affairs Dependency and Indemnity Compensation, a monthly benefit paid to eligible survivors of certain deceased veterans.

VBA created a Tiger Team to complete very old claims, and claims from elderly veterans; created nine resource centers to decide claims developed at the regional offices of jurisdiction; consolidated pension maintenance work at three regional offices to free up staff at other offices to concentrate on other work; consolidated in-service dependency and indemnity compensation claims at one office; consolidated processing of appeals remanded from VA's Board of Veterans Appeals at one office; and is consolidating decision making on Benefits Delivery at Discharge (BDD) claims at two regional offices.

Those eligible must have received disability compensation, pension, dependency and indemnity compensation or spina bifida benefits.

Support legislation to remove the offset of Survivor Benefit Plan payments and VA dependency and indemnity compensation.

It also called for eliminating the offset for the military's Survivor Benefit Plan and the VA's dependency and indemnity compensation benefits.

But thanks to the diligence of the DAV Judicial Appeals Office, she finally received the dependency and indemnity compensation (DIC) from the Department of Veterans Affairs that had been denied her since 1991, when her husband James died.