Because her husband never sought professional help for his mental health problems and was never officially diagnosed with PTSD, the VA denied Linda’s claim to receive dependent death benefits – a tax-free monthly payment worth thousands of dollars a year.

Yeah…

If you’re not in the system, the surviving spouse is going to have a lot more difficulty after you pass than if you’d have done it while alive.

Especially right now, I doubt the motivations of the author presenting this like the VA is doing something wrong