Wong asks about surviving spouses of LGBTQ veterans' benefits
Wong asks about surviving spouses of LGBTQ veterans' eligibility for benefits and outreach. Noah Bray says they are creating subject matter experts for surviving spouse claims and that eligibility is typically yes but very nuanced based on individual circumstances.
I have a follow-up.
You have a...
For surviving spouses of LGBTQ veterans, are they eligible for benefits?
And how are you going to outreach to this particular population?
Please talk about it.
Sure.
Thank you for that question.
We do have two claims benefits that we are creating like a subject matter expert in that realm and the surviving spouse realm.
So that would fall under their purview.
So it's a similar thing where we send them out into the communities or with the nonprofit organizations that tend to have a higher population of potential surviving spouses.
And then from the beginnings of those conversations, it's very similar in that once we have that general benefit conversation, it will lead.
Again, that's the magic, and it speaks to the claims agent's abilities to be able to connect with those veterans or their surviving spouses to get them to those benefits.