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| | Death Benefits, Guard Bonus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | The death benefit initiatives are part of the fiscal 2005 wartime emergency supplemental appropriations bill (HR 1268) nearing final passage. |
 | | It would raise the current $12,400 lump-sum death gratuity for next-of-kin to $100,000 and apply the increase retroactively to most active duty deaths since fall of 2001. |
 | | That increase too would be paid retroactively for military deaths since Oct. 7, 2001, and also tied to "performance of duty,'' a term left to Defense officials to interpret. |
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