§321 Office of Survivors Assistance

Summary

The Secretary must create an Office of Survivors Assistance inside the Department. The Office will be a main resource for benefits and services for survivors and family members of veterans and of people who died while in the Armed Forces. It will advise the Secretary on policies, programs, and laws that affect those survivors. The Secretary must ask for input from interested groups, give the Office enough staff, money, and other support, and report each year in the Performance and Accountability report to Congress about what the Office did.