title: Additional Compensation on Account of Children Adopted Out of   Veteran's Family. Final rule.
abstract: The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is amending its adjudication regulations to clarify that a veteran will not receive the dependent rate of disability compensation for a child who is adopted out of the veteran's family. This action is necessary because applicable VA adjudication regulations are currently construed as permitting a veteran, whose former child was adopted out of the veteran's family, to receive the dependent rate of disability compensation for the adopted-out child, which constitutes an unwarranted award of benefits not supported by the applicable statute and legislative history. This document adopts as a final rule, without change, the proposed rule published in the Federal Register on December 2, 2014.
mesh_terms: D000300:Adoption / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D002648:Child; D035881:Compensation and Redress / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006233:Persons with Disabilities / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D005190:Family; D006801:Humans; D014481:United States; D014728:Veterans / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*