VA burial allowances on this service are paid at half rate unless the veteran lived in the United States as a citizen or green card holder at death. Burial in a VA national cemetery needs the same U.S. residence and status.
No rating requirement. A burial allowance at the full rate can follow either VA compensation at any rating or pension-level disability, income and net worth. Nothing turns on a single percentage.
An American cemetery in Pampanga, run by the American Battle Monuments Commission since 2013, that still accepts burials of eligible U.S. veterans. Manila American Cemetery is closed to new burials.
No rating requirement. Burial at Clark turns on discharge or retirement papers, not on a disability rating.
VA pays compensation and DIC on this service at fifty cents for each dollar, and at the full rate only to a veteran or survivor living in the United States as a citizen or green card holder. VA pension is not payable on this service at all.
Compensation starts at 10%. Monthly compensation on this service follows the ordinary rating schedule and starts at 10%, then is paid at fifty cents per dollar unless the full-dollar residence rule is met. DIC for a survivor turns on the death, not on a rating.
Chapter 35 can be used at a Philippine school, and not only for a college degree, but VA pays it there at fifty cents per dollar. Children of Commonwealth Army veterans and New Philippine Scouts are eligible at the same half rate.
Sponsor status. Chapter 35 follows a sponsor who is permanently and totally disabled from a service-connected disability, died in the line of duty, or died of a service-connected disability. P&T is not the only path.
A one-time payment of $15,000 to U.S. citizens and $9,000 to others for Commonwealth Army, guerrilla and New Philippine Scout service. Claims had to be filed by February 16, 2010, and taking the payment released every other claim on that service.
Closed since February 16, 2010. Section 1002(c)(1) allowed payment only on a claim submitted within one year of February 17, 2009.
A USCIS program that lets a Filipino World War II veteran, or surviving spouse, living in the United States request parole for relatives with an approved family petition, so they can come before their immigrant visa is current.
No rating requirement. The program turns on the veteran's World War II service, the petitioner's U.S. status and an approved family petition, not on any disability.
The Philippines excludes VA benefits paid to anyone living there, and taxes a non-citizen only on Philippine-source income, which U.S. military retired pay is not. A dual citizen is covered by a separate exclusion for foreign government pensions.
No rating requirement. The exclusions follow the kind of income and the taxpayer's citizenship and residence, not any disability percentage.
A Filipino World War II veteran recognized by the United States can draw the Philippine old-age pension of P20,000 a month as well as VA compensation. Philippine law stopped offsetting the two in 2008.
Philippine service or Allied service in the Philippines. RA 6948 section 2(a) defines the veteran. A U.S. veteran with no Philippine or Allied-in-the-Philippines wartime service and no Armed Forces of the Philippines service is outside it.
The Philippine Retirement Authority's SRRV Courtesy option names retired military service members. Its visa deposit is USD 1,500 at age 50 and over, against USD 15,000 to 50,000 for the Classic option, and it carries permanent residence.
Retired military service members. The Courtesy category the Philippine Retirement Authority names is retired military service members from countries with recognized bilateral relations with the Philippines. A veteran who separated without retiring should expect to apply under SRRV Classic.
A military retiree or family member using TRICARE in the Philippines is covered only at Preferred or Certified providers, except in an emergency. TRICARE For Life still requires Medicare Part B there, though Medicare pays nothing.
Military retirees and their families. TRICARE follows military retirement or a family relationship to a sponsor, not veteran status or a VA rating.
The only VA health facility in a foreign country. It treats service-connected conditions, and VA's regulation also lets it treat other conditions of a veteran who has a service-connected disability, within the clinic's limits.
Service-connected condition. VA has to have rated at least one disability service-connected, including at 0%. The clinic treats that condition and conditions associated with and aggravating it, and 38 C.F.R. 17.35(b) lets it treat other conditions of that veteran within its limits.
VA's only regional benefit office outside the United States, on the U.S. Embassy's Seafront Compound in Pasay City. Congress keeps renewing its authority, and the current renewal runs only to December 11, 2026.
No rating requirement. The office serves any veteran, service member, survivor or dependent with a VA claim or benefit. Nothing about it turns on a disability percentage.