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Nov. 26, 2003 - The Veterans Benefits Act of 2003 restores Dependency and Indemnity Compensation, home loans, education and burial benefits for surviving spouses who remarry after age 57. Those who remarried at age 57 or older before the bill was passed will be grandfathered if they apply for reinstatement within a year. The bill also raises educational payments for spouses and children of veterans whose deaths were service-connected from $695 to $788 per month for full-time study, from $522 to $592 for three-quarter time study, and from $347 to $394 for part-time study. And it adds self-employment training programs and entrepreneurship courses to the Montgomery G.I. Bill. Under another provision, former POWs no longer will have a 30-day minimum requirement to qualify for presumption of certain service-connected disabilities.