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Show Veterans get benefits from VA program There are nearly three million veterans receiving disability compensation com-pensation or pension payments from the VA. Just over one million widows and other survivors of veterans are being paid survivor compensation or death pension benefits. be-nefits. Among them are 126,000 survivors of Vietnam Era veterans. VA disability and death compensation compen-sation and pension expenditures run about $14 billion annually, an amount greater than the budget of three of the 13 cabinet-level departments. |