# Filipino Veterans' Benefits Improvements
> **US Department of Veterans Affairs** · Interim final rule. · Published 2001-12-27 · Effective 2001-12-27 · 66 FR 66763
## Document
- **Document number:** 01-31828
- **Category:** va-benefits
- **Agency:** US Department of Veterans Affairs
- **Federal Register citation:** 66 FR 66763
- **Publication date:** 2001-12-27
- **Effective date:** 2001-12-27
## Abstract

This document amends Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) adjudication regulations to reflect changes made by the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001, which changed the rate of compensation payments to certain Filipino veterans residing in the United States and the Veterans Benefits and Health Care Improvement Act of 2000, which changed the amount of the burial benefit paid to the survivors of certain Filipino veterans who were residing in the United States at the times of their deaths.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2001/12/27/01-31828/filipino-veterans-benefits-improvements)
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