If you return to the United States to live, you will not be entitled to a Special Veterans Benefits payment for any month after the month in which you leave your home outside the United States.

You can continue to receive Special Veterans Benefits (SVB) if you go to the United States for a visit and stay less than 1 full calendar month. For SVB purposes, you are in the United States if you are in one of the 50 States, the District of Columbia or the Northern Mariana Islands.

However, if you visit the United States and stay for more than a full calendar month, you will no longer be considered to be residing outside the United States for any month after the full calendar month you are in the United States. You will not be entitled to any SVB payments until you leave the United States and re-establish your residence outside the United States.

A calendar month means all of the first day of a month through all of the last day of that month. For example: You arrive in the United States on May 25 and stay throughout the entire month of June. On July 2, you leave to return to your home outside the United States. Social Security considers you to have been in the United States for the full calendar month of June. Therefore, you will not be entitled to a Special Veterans Benefit payment for July.

If you visit the United States and then later decide to live there and not to return to your home abroad, you will no longer be considered to be residing outside the United States. You will not be entitled to a Special Veterans Benefit payment beginning with the earlier of the following:

• The month after the month in which you decided to live in the United States; or
• The month after the first full calendar month you were in the United States.