# Additional Compensation on Account of Children Adopted Out of Veteran's Family
> **US Department of Veterans Affairs** · Final rule. · Published 2015-08-13 · Effective 2015-09-14 · 80 FR 48450
## Document
- **Document number:** 2015-19949
- **Category:** va-benefits
- **Agency:** US Department of Veterans Affairs
- **Federal Register citation:** 80 FR 48450
- **CFR reference:** 38 CFR 3
- **Publication date:** 2015-08-13
- **Effective date:** 2015-09-14
## Abstract

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is amending its adjudication regulations to clarify that a veteran will not receive the dependent rate of disability compensation for a child who is adopted out of the veteran's family. This action is necessary because applicable VA adjudication regulations are currently construed as permitting a veteran, whose former child was adopted out of the veteran's family, to receive the dependent rate of disability compensation for the adopted-out child, which constitutes an unwarranted award of benefits not supported by the applicable statute and legislative history. This document adopts as a final rule, without change, the proposed rule published in the Federal Register on December 2, 2014.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2015/08/13/2015-19949/additional-compensation-on-account-of-children-adopted-out-of-veterans-family)
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