# Dependency and Indemnity Compensation (DIC) Benefits for Survivors of Former Prisoners of War Rated Totally Disabled at Time of Death
> **US Department of Veterans Affairs** · Final rule. · Published 2012-07-10 · Effective 2012-07-10 · 77 FR 40525
## Document
- **Document number:** 2012-16812
- **Category:** va-benefits
- **Agency:** US Department of Veterans Affairs
- **Federal Register citation:** 77 FR 40525
- **CFR reference:** 38 CFR 3
- **Publication date:** 2012-07-10
- **Effective date:** 2012-07-10
## Abstract

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is amending its adjudication regulation regarding benefits for survivors of former prisoners of war who were rated totally disabled at the time of death. This amendment is necessary to conform the regulation to the authorizing statutory provision. The effect of this amendment is to liberalize the eligibility criteria for dependency and indemnity compensation (DIC) based on the death of a former prisoner of war whose service-connected disabilities had been continuously rated totally disabling for at least 1 year when he or she died.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2012/07/10/2012-16812/dependency-and-indemnity-compensation-dic-benefits-for-survivors-of-former-prisoners-of-war-rated)
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