Veteran and his wife moved by story of fellow vet’s widow
The original piece appeared three weeks ago today, telling of the plight of a Chelsea widow whom the federal government was aggressively pursuing.
When her husband, a Vietnam veteran who spent 20 years in the military, died in 1987, she began receiving a monthly pension of $570.
It wasn’t until 18 months ago that she discovered she should have been receiving $1,177 because his death was service-related. In the process of correcting their oversight, government officials mistakenly sent her both checks.
“It happened only once,” her friend and advocate Mike Resca pointed out. “She didn’t catch the mistake, so she spent them both, having gone so long with so little.”
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