Still On Government’s Payroll: A Civil War Veteran’s Pension

The child of a Civil War Veteran is still receiving payment.

Last year, two children of veterans were still on the benefits roll for Civil War pensions, but the numbers changed when one of the children passed away.

“The Department of Veterans’ Affairs provided benefits to two children of Civil War veterans for the past several years,” says Randy Noller, a spokesman for the VA. “One, unfortunately, passed away last summer at the age of 93.”

The other child of a Civil War veteran continues to receive benefits and lives in the southern United States, Noller said.

For comparison, the government is still paying out pensions to 58 children of Spanish-American War veterans, 2,192 children of World War I veterans and 10,733 children of World War II veterans.

Although Noller said he could not disclose personal information about the recipient due to privacy regulations, both The Associated Press and The Daily Mail reported that the remaining individual receives about $876 every year.

By: William

retired military , former cop, lifelong gym rat and doting grandfather alive and living in Maine