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I am still in the process of trying to get my month of death payment for my husband's Feb 2007 death. The funds were taken out of my bank account August 2007 - though when I received a copy of the C-file I found a Finance Operations transmittal sheet in my file, dated June 28, 2007 that states, "Surviving Spouse entitled to one time payment of amt of comp or pen received by veteran at time of death. Remove overpayment (08E Transaction) if payment is not returned. 38 CFR 3.20©"
Of course, I followed up on that in May 2008, when I found it. And of course, the VA said they had forwarded my request and I would get a response by letter.
I went to the VA site and did what they said to do for the widow benefit through the Special Outreach they are having -- which is to submit the info through the IRIS system - through the Month of Death Payment link.
I submitted the initial one January 19, 2009. I got the auto response that says I should expect to hear from them in 5 business days.
I didn't get any other response - so I submitted a follow up on February 3, 2009. Again, I only got the auto response.
It does say the request is routed to the 'VBA NASHMOD' group.
My question is - I also asked my Congressman to look into the matter.
Does that also slow down the IRIS responses? Or make them not respond to you at all?
I am not sure how important an IRIS response is -- since all the responses they have given me over the last two years have not resulted in a month of death check yet. But for some reason, I still like them to respond to my requests for information on my claim.
Does anyone have any experience using IRIS if a Congressman is involved? Does the VA not respond directly to you any more?
I realize this is about a widow benefit - but I hope it doesn't get bumped down to the widow and orphan section yet.
It gets pretty lonely down there.
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