Assistance program
Special Benefits for Certain World War II Veterans
$5.0 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Social Security Administration, Social Security Administration
- Assistance
- Direct Payments With Unrestricted Use
- CFDA number
- 96.020
- What it does
- To pay a special benefit to certain World War II veterans, who are eligible for Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits and meet other specified criteria for each month that they reside outside of the United States.
- Who benefits
- Benefits are paid to certain World War II veterans meeting the criteria specified under Applicant Eligibility. Credentials/Documentation
- Who applies
- Age 65 or older on December 14, 1999; World War II veteran (including Filipino World War II veterans of organized guerrilla forces under U.S. auspices); eligible for SSI benefits for December 1999 and the month the SVB application was filed; and, have other benefit income less than 75 percent of the SSI federal benefit rate. For 2023, 75 percent of the SSI federal benefit rate is $685.50.
- Authorized by
- Foster Care Independence Act of 1999, Section 251, Public Law 106-169; Social Security Act, Title VIII
- Program site
- http://www.socialsecurity.gov ↗
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
Recipients
This program's money is paid out as non-itemized direct payments — USAspending records it under a single aggregate, so individual recipients aren't listed. The dollars and agencies above are complete; the recipient roster isn't part of the public record for programs like this.
How to read these numbers
- Committed through this program
Money committed under this assistance listing (its CFDA program), counted in the year each action happened.
- How it's paid
Most programs pay out one way — a grant, or a direct payment to individuals; the flow bar only appears when a program genuinely mixes types.
- Some recipients aren't itemized
For entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare, the government reports one aggregate instead of naming tens of millions of people, so the recipient roster isn't part of the public record.
- Awards, counted once
An award count is the number of distinct awards with at least one action that year — each counted once, however many times it was amended.
- The colored bars
Every bar on this page splits by how the money moves:
Direct payments