Past rates: 2022 VA DIC rates for parents

Review 2022 VA Dependency and Indemnity Compensation (DIC) rates for the surviving parents of Veterans. These VA survivor benefits are tax exempt. This means you won’t have to pay any taxes

on your DIC payments. These rates are effective December 1, 2021.

These rates apply to you if you’re eligible for VA DIC as a surviving parent and both of the below descriptions are true for you.

Note: Your yearly income is how much money you earn during one calendar year (January 1 to December 31). This includes income from all sources, such as wages, salary, investment payments,

rental properties, gifts, income of dependents living in your home, and some retirement payments. If you’re remarried and living with your spouse, this also includes your spouse’s income.

Find out if you’re eligible for VA DIC as a surviving parent

Click on an accordion to review the rate table. Use the amount in the first column that’s closest to your income when rounded up to find your beginning monthly rate. Then, follow the

directions in the how to use the rate tables section to figure out your monthly payment.

These rates apply to you if you’re eligible for VA DIC as a surviving parent and both of the below descriptions are true for you.

Note: Your yearly income is how much money you earn during one calendar year (January 1 to December 31). This includes income from all sources, such as wages, salary, investment payments,

rental properties, gifts, income of dependents living in your home, and some retirement payments. If you’re remarried and living with your spouse, this also includes your spouse’s income.

Find out if you’re eligible for VA DIC as a surviving parent

Click on an accordion to review the rate table. Use the amount in the first column that’s closest to your yearly income when rounded up to find your beginning monthly rate. Then, follow the

directions in the how to use the rate tables section to figure out your monthly payment.

These rates apply to you if you’re eligible for VA DIC as a surviving parent and both of the below descriptions are true for you.

Note: Your yearly income is how much money you earn during one calendar year (January 1 to December 31). This includes income from all sources, such as wages, salary, investment payments,

rental properties, gifts, income of dependents living in your home, and some retirement payments. If you’re remarried and living with your spouse, this also includes your spouse’s income.

Find out if you’re eligible for VA DIC as a surviving parent

Click on an accordion to review the rate table. Use the amount in the first column that’s closest to your income when rounded up to find your beginning monthly rate. Then, follow the

directions in the how to use the rate tables section to figure out your monthly payment.

Find your beginning monthly rate in the table above that applies to you.To do this, find the yearly income limit amount in the first column that’s closest to your income when rounded up. The

amount listed to the right, in the middle column, is your beginning monthly rate. 

For example: Let’s say you’re the eligible parent, living with the Veteran’s other parent or a current spouse. For this example, click on the $7,000 or more income range directly above. If

you earn $7,153 a year, you make more than $7,100, and less than $7,200. So you would use the $7,200 income limit. Your beginning monthly rate would be $8.

Calculate the difference between your actual income and the income limit that’s closest to your income when rounded down. To do this, find the income limit in the first column that’s closest

to your income when rounded down. Subtract this income limit from your actual income.

Using our example: $7,153 (actual income) - $7,100 (income limit closest to your income when rounded down) = $53

Multiply this amount by the rate of decrease.The rate of decrease is the decimal listed in the last column. It helps us adjust your rate to match your actual income level.

Add this amount to your beginning monthly rate.The total is your monthly payment.

Using our example: $4.24 + $8 (beginning monthly rate) = $12.24 (monthly payment)

If you’re eligible for Aid and Attendance, add $386.The total is your monthly payment with Aid and Attendance.

Using our example: $12.24 (monthly payment) + $386 (Aid and Attendance) = $398.24 (monthly payment with Aid and Attendance)

Next, determine your payment scheduleHow often you get a payment depends on your total amount for the year.

Multiply your monthly payment amount by 12 months. Then use the payment schedule below, based on the total amount for the year.

Using our example: 12 X $398.24 (monthly payment amount with Aid and Attendance) = $4,778.88 (total year’s value).

Because your total year’s worth of payment is more than $228, you’d be paid on a monthly schedule.

Read the full regulations from Title 38 Code of Federal Regulations.

38 U.S.C 501(a) Subpart A—Pension, Compensation, and Dependency and Indemnity Compensation

3.250 Dependency of parents; compensation 3.251 Income of parents, dependency and indemnity compensation3.260 Computation of income 3.261 Character of income; exclusions and estates 3.262

Evaluation of income 3.263 Corpus of estate; net worth3.270 Applicability of various dependency, income and estate regulations

3.5 Dependency and indemnity compensation3.25 Parent’s dependency and indemnity compensation (DIC)—Method of payment computation3.30 Frequency of payment of improved pension and parents’

dependency and indemnity compensation (DIC) 3.59 Parent