You want to know what benefits state law provides to surviving parents of veterans.

We found only three benefits that state law provides to surviving parents of veterans.

One law gives a $ 1,000 property tax exemption to a veteran's sole surviving parent while such parent remains a widow or widower. The benefit is available if the veteran left no widow or widower or the widow or widower dies or remarries (CGS § 12-81(25)).

Another law gives death benefits to certain surviving dependents of Connecticut-domiciled armed forces members, including guard members and reservists, who are killed in action or die from illness or accident suffered while deployed and performing active-duty service in Southwest Asia in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan) or Operation Iraqi Freedom (Iraq) between September 11, 2001 and July 1, 2006. If the service member leaves no spouse and no dependent children under age 18 but dependent parents, $ 50,000 is payable to the parent or parents in equal monthly installments over at least five years; if one parent dies, the payment continues for the surviving parent and ends if he or she dies during “the five-year period. ” The law requires the state treasurer to make the payments and reduce payments by any amount of death benefit paid under federal law for the member's death (PA 05-3, June 2005 Special Session).

A third law allows the veterans' affairs commissioner to provide temporary assistance to the parents of a veteran who died while in active service if the parents cannot support themselves because of the veteran's death. The amount of the assistance is at the commissioner's discretion (CGS § 27-125).

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