Massachusetts pays a $2,500 annuity to eligible disabled veterans, Gold Star parents and unremarried surviving spouses. Veterans qualify if the VA certifies them blind, paralyzed or a double amputee, or rates them 100 percent service-connected disabled. Parents and unremarried surviving spouses qualify when the service member’s death was service-connected, and also when they lost a family member to COVID-19 at a Massachusetts Veterans Home.
Apply online through the Massachusetts Executive Office of Veterans Services annuity application, or send the completed paper application and its documentation by mail or email, or through your local Veterans Service Officer. Questions go to VetsAnnuity@Mass.Gov, 617-210-5480 or 857-348-3208.
Your discharge paperwork, your VA certification of blindness, paralysis, double amputation or a 100 percent rating, or the service member’s casualty documentation and your proof of relationship, plus proof you live in Massachusetts.
