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Serving Former POWs
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Former Prisoners of War For purposes of disability compensation, Congress has recognized that certain diseases are associated with a former POW's captivity. A former POW must be diagnosed with one or more of the following diseases to a degree of at least 10 percent disabling: The presumption of association is made for several conditions regardless of the length of captivity:
For internment of 30 days or more, the following conditions are presumed to be service-connected.
Spouses of veterans who die as a result of service-connected disabilities may be eligible for dependency and indemnity compensation (DIC) administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs. Public Law 106-117, authorized DIC to those surviving spouses of certain former prisoners of war. These include those who had died from non-service-connected causes if the former POW was rated totally disabled due to any service-connected cause for a period of one or more years (rather than 10 or more years) immediately prior to death. |
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