Name: Will I Lose My VA Benefits If...?
Uploaded: 2025-09-22T19:00:00+00:00
Duration: 13 min 59 s
Description: Are you worried about losing your VA benefits? It's a common fear, and knowing the facts is the best way to protect what you've earned. This video is your guide to understanding the various scenarios

2 months ago

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Are you worried about losing your VA benefits? It's a common fear, and knowing the facts is the best way to protect what you've earned. This video is your guide to understanding the various scenarios that could cause you to lose or have your VA benefits reduced.

We'll break down the most common reasons, including:

Convicted Felon: Learn how incarceration for more than 60 days can impact your disability compensation and pension, but also how benefits can be reinstated upon release.

Moving to Another Country: The good news—you can keep your benefits! But we’ll cover the impact on healthcare and home loans.

Medical Marijuana Use: Why using cannabis won’t cause you to lose benefits, even though VA providers can’t prescribe it.

Nursing Home Care: Find out why this won’t terminate your benefits and how the VA can help with long-term care options.

Remarriage: The surprising rules on how and when remarriage can affect a surviving spouse's DIC benefits.

Getting a Job or Winning the Lottery: We explain the critical difference in how income and assets affect needs-based programs like VA Pension versus standard disability compensation.

Fugitive Felons & Terrorism: The severe consequences and immediate loss of all benefits for individuals in these categories.

Don't let a simple mistake or a change in life circumstances jeopardize your financial security. Watch now to learn what to look out for and how to take proactive steps to protect your VA benefits!

Timestamps:
00:00 Start
00:21 Will I Lose My VA Benefits If I'm a Convicted Felon
00:54 Will I Lose My VA Pension If I'm a Convicted Felon
02:38 Will I Lose My VA Benefits If I'm A Fugitive Felon
03:02 Will I Lose My VA Benefits If I Move to Another Country
04:37 Will I Lose My VA Benefits If I Use Marijuana
06:02 Will I Lose My VA Benefits If I'm in a Nursing Home
06:38 Will I Lose My VA Benefits If I Remarry
08:45 Will I Lose My VA Benefits If I Get a Job
09:52 Will I Lose My VA Benefits If I Win the Lottery
10:55 Will I Lose My VA Benefits If I'm Deemed a Terrorist