Apply for CHAMPVA without a SSN

[Vet Dog and wife]

My son and I finally got added as my husband’s beneficiaries without having to have SSNs because we are foreign citizens, and we live out of the country, But now CHAMPVA is saying we must have SSNs before we can apply.

Does anyone have any information on this issue?

Thank you  

[Berta]

This link might help:

https://www.benefits.va.gov/persona/veteran-abroad.asp

If not perhaps the President's veterans Hot line can help.

1-855-948-2311

Or SSA itself:

https://www.ssa.gov/agency/contact/phone.html

Did CHAMPVA formally deny your application?-

if so- for this reason?

If they did- can you scan and attach their letter here? (Cover C file # name prior to scanning it)

Also Glen Johnson of CHAMPVA has been a radio show guest here many times and his contact info is here under a search----actually I would try him first-----

he always gives out his contact info whe he does podcast shows at hadit:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/haditcom/2016/09/20/glen-johnson-from-champ-veterans-affairs--haditcom-blog-talk-veterans-radio

[Buck52]

It seems I read something bout if a dependent don't have a SS# they will need to file for one  b/c this is how ChampVA Identifies a climate.