Posted on Jan 2, 2026
One Household, One Set of Benefits: How Military and VA Rules Affect Dual-Service Couples
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Since I am married to another veteran, I know what this is all about...
One Household, One Set of Benefits: How Military and VA Rules Affect Dual-Service Couples
Posted from military.com
Edited 14 h ago
Posted 15 h ago
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Posted 13 h ago
Throughout the article, it identifies each "issue" as a perception problem, not a real fairness issue. Nuff said?
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Posted 14 h ago
No impact on Me as I'm the Retired Military Veteran and and My wife a Military dependent of mine. . I'm not quite sure what to think of this, both if service embers active or retired have each earned their benefits. I wasn't aware of this issue with households where both people were veterans. It would be interesting to hear what other veterans think of this policy.
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Lt Col Charlie Brown
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We are both receiving disability but we would actually get more if he wasn't and was just my dependent.
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Posted 1 h ago
Lt Col Charlie Brown I read this article word for word. Veterans who planned to live their lives in financial security (in some scenarios) end up being handled as double dippers. Whereas, often times veteran no veteran marriages end up with the Non veteran sucking the life, resources, and benefits out of the veteran. It seems like people who invest little to nothing get the greater advantages across the board into the veteran's life who has earned , paid taxes to have benefits opportunities that are treated like welfare. Hence, welfare broke up strong families and now to have all that has been earned, some veterans will have to pass on a strong, committed spouse.
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