Sec. 621. Findings and sense of Congress regarding the Special Survivor Indemnity Allowance
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Congress finds the following: Dependency and indemnity compensation administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs provides financial support to the surviving spouses, children, and dependent parents of deceased veterans. The survivor benefit plan administered by the Department of Defense provides an inflation-adjusted annuity to the eligible survivors of certain deceased military personnel. The amount of compensation a surviving spouse may receive under the survivor benefit plan is offset on a dollar-for-dollar basis by any amount of dependency and indemnity compensation the surviving spouse receives.
It is the sense of Congress that— the special survivor indemnity allowance was created to assist surviving spouses and begin to repay the offset described in subsection (a)(3); and such offset should be repealed as soon as possible.