Not true. A family gets death bennies if a soldier dies in a car wreck here in the US. So that's a load or BS.
The death gratuity payment is $12,420, and is non-taxable. For those whose death is as a result of hostile actions and occurred in a designated combat operation or combat zone or while training for combat or performing hazardous duty, the payment is $100,000.
Unpaid Pay and Allowances. Upon death of an active duty member, any pay and allowances due, but not paid to the member, are paid to the designated beneficiary named on the member’s DD Form 93, Record of Emergency Data.
Unpaid pay and allowances may include unpaid basic pay, payment for up to 60 days of accrued leave, amounts due for travel, per diem expenses, transportation of eligible family members, shipment of household goods, and unpaid installments of variable reenlistment bonuses. The decedent’s pay record is completely audited by the Defense Finance and Accounting Service, and a check for any amount due is issued to the designated beneficiary.
(SGLI). The SGLI payment is $400,000 unless the member elected a lesser amount or declined coverage in writing. Non taxable.
Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP). SBP is a monthly annuity paid by the military to the surviving spouse or, in some cases, eligible children, of a member who dies on active duty. The initial annuity paid to a surviving spouse is equal to 55 percent of the retired pay to which the member would have been entitled based upon years of active service if retired on the date of death (if the member was retirement-eligible).
The annuity is reduced by the amount of the monthly DIC payment awarded and paid to the surviving spouse by the Department of VA. When the surviving spouse reaches age 62, the annuity is reduced to 35 percent. The annuity is paid until the spouse dies, but is suspended upon remarriage before age 55. The annuity to a surviving spouse may be reinstated if the subsequent marriage ends in death or divorce. The annuitant must send a certified copy of the divorce decree or death certificate to DFAS-DE to reinstate the annuity. If a second SBP benefit resulted from the remarriage, the surviving spouse must elect which of the two SBP benefits to receive. Should the surviving spouse remarry at age 55 or older, the annuitant will continue to receive the monthly annuity.
Dependency and Indemnity Compensation (DIC). The DIC payments may be authorized for surviving spouses who have not remarried, unmarried children under age 18, disabled children, children between the age of 18 and 23 if attending a VA-approved school, and low-income parents of Service members who die from:
•A disease or injury incurred or aggravated while on active duty or active duty for training.
•An injury incurred or aggravated in line of duty while on inactive duty training.
Plus a surviving spouse and any children are eligible for some VA bennies too such as much as 48 months of assistance wile attending a VA approved school.
Plus they keep their ID cards and can use military medical facilities, Tri Care and keep commissary and PX privileges.
There is more but it's a lot of reading.
The surviving spouse will has a causality assistants office assigned to help them wade through everything. The death gratuity payment is made within 48 hours of the death being reported.
So whoever told you that has no idea what they are talking about. Besides, a mission like that in support or foreign troops that we have been training is an authorized mission.
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