Section 104.20  Responsibilities of the Department

The Department of Veterans' Affairs has the responsibility:

a)         to adopt general rules for making payments under this Part;

b)         to ascertain the amount to which eligible persons are entitled;

c)         to ascertain and select the proper beneficiaries and the amount to which those beneficiaries are entitled; and

d)         to the best of its ability, to disburse the funds in accordance with the authority vested under the Act.