Veterans Compensation Monthly Components Calculator

Check the payment category before adding amounts

This calculator helps an already awarded Korean military or police beneficiary, or a confirmed survivor, compare the components on an MPVA payment notice.
It shows base compensation, included allowances and overlap exclusions before producing a monthly total.
The term veterans pension is sometimes used informally, but these benefits have a different legal basis from a military retirement pension.

The same injury grade produces different amounts under the national-merit and compensation schemes.
Legacy and post-1 July 2012 regimes also use different family and nursing rules.
Select the actual award category instead of combining the largest figures from several tables.

No name or veterans registration number is required.
Inputs remain in the calculator without separate storage or transmission.
A downloaded review includes the family and award conditions you entered; share only what the reviewing officer needs.

Supported beneficiaries and cases requiring separate review

The automatic tables cover national-merit military/police injury beneficiaries, survivors of military/police duty deaths or awarded injured beneficiaries, and the corresponding service-injury compensation scheme.
A survivor calculation covers one deceased person and one confirmed sole recipient: spouse, parent or child.
It does not decide survivor priority.

Independence patriots, war-service-only benefits, military decorations, Agent Orange benefits, civil servants, April 19 categories and volunteer student soldiers require other tables.
Select Other beneficiary to receive a pending result.
Pending does not mean ineligible or a zero payment.

Multiple deceased beneficiaries, split parental awards, suspensions and publicly supported residential care need a separate office calculation.
Multiple deaths can require the base compensation for each deceased person as well as allowance adjustments; adding only 274,000 KRW to one base would be incomplete.

Prepare the award notice and relevant family details

Choose the regime confirmed on the award notice, not the date a replacement registration card was issued.
An application submitted before 1 July 2012 and approved later may be governed by transitional provisions.
The calculator therefore asks for a confirmed legacy or modern regime instead of inferring it from one date.

An injured beneficiary needs the precise awarded grade, including subdivisions.
Survivors select duty/service death, grade 1–5 or grade 6.
For legacy national-merit awards, an injury-related grade 6 death uses the grade 1–5 payment row; an unrelated grade 6 death uses the grade 6 row.
A confirmed injury-related legacy grade 7 death has a separate selection.

Enter awarded dependents, not everyone in the household.
Counts include eligible minors or adult children with an approved statutory disability continuation.
A surviving child must not count themselves as a dependent sibling.
Surviving parents do not receive an assumed dependent-family allowance merely because they have children.

2026 base compensation and severe-injury supplement

The ministry PDF is expressed in thousands of won.
This calculator converts the figures to KRW: national-merit grade 7 is 708,000 KRW per month and compensation grade 7 is 496,000 KRW.
It uses the published amounts directly instead of estimating the second scheme by multiplying and rounding a percentage.

Grade 1 compensation and the severe-injury supplement are separate components.
National-merit grade 1-1 has 4,058,000 KRW base and 3,044,000 KRW supplement; compensation grade 1-1 has 2,841,000 KRW base and 2,131,000 KRW supplement.
Do not add the supplement again to a published total that already includes it.

The legacy table does not list grade 6-3.
That combination is held for review, rather than silently replaced with grade 6-2 or the modern grade 6-3 amount.
Ask the office about the applicable regime and first payment month when a reassessment changes a grade.

Dependent-family and elderly allowance adjustments

Under the modern regime, an injured beneficiary receives 100,000 KRW per awarded spouse or child; a surviving spouse receives 100,000 KRW per awarded child; and a surviving child receives 200,000 KRW per awarded minor sibling.
The 2026 compensation scheme also includes grade 7 beneficiaries in dependent-family allowance coverage.

Legacy allowances, nursing and living adjustment

Legacy survivor child-care allowances differ from modern family allowances.
A surviving spouse receives 50,000 KRW for one child, 185,000 KRW for two and 370,000 KRW for three.
A surviving child receives sibling-care allowance of 100,000 KRW for one sibling, 370,000 KRW for two and 740,000 KRW for three.
Do not multiply the one-person rate by every count.

Legacy special awards are 274,000 KRW for an unsupported-person allowance, 149,000 KRW for unsupported-parent care and 274,000 KRW for an only-child death allowance.
Use them only after award confirmation.
Where an elderly and legacy special allowance overlap, only the higher amount is included.
Living alone does not establish the legal conditions.

Confirmed legacy nursing awards are 3,375,000 KRW for grade 1-1, 3,247,000 for 1-2, 3,123,000 for 1-3 and 1,079,000 for grade 2.
Modern constant nursing is 3,375,000 KRW and occasional nursing is 2,250,000 KRW.
Current annexes can include specified grade 3–5 cases for occasional nursing, subject to additional official conditions.

Living-adjustment choices are approved amounts of 242,000, 277,000, 311,000, 300,000, 336,000 or 370,000 KRW.
The amount depends on the means assessment and family size.
The calculator does not infer approval from an income estimate.
Confirm non-payment before choosing zero; leave an unreviewed application as unknown.

Use the calculator and confirm changed months

Select the scheme, recipient and awarded regime or grade.
Choose a month in 2026, the age applicable to that payment month and the awarded dependent count.
Obtain nursing and living-adjustment amounts from the component notice rather than working backward from the bank deposit.

If other national benefits exist, ask the veterans office to review co-payment rules.
Marking that review complete does not add those other benefits to this total.
Choose the complex-case option for multiple deaths, split payments, suspensions or facility support.

A birthday, marriage, death, child reaching adulthood or grade change can alter the payment conditions for a month.
The calculator does not prorate changes automatically.
Enter the applicable age and count after office confirmation, then choose the confirmed changed-month status.
Recheck before carrying the same inputs into another month.

Worked examples you can reproduce

The fictional example is a modern national-merit grade 7 beneficiary aged 60 with one awarded spouse and no other allowances.
Base 708,000 + family 100,000 + elderly 0 = 808,000 KRW per month.
The 97,000 KRW elderly reference is excluded as overlap.
Twelve months at unchanged conditions equals 9,696,000 KRW.

Compare the result with the actual payment statement

First match the base compensation and included allowances to the individual amounts on the notice.
If they differ, review the scheme, legacy/modern regime, survivor payment row and nursing category in that order.
A bank deposit alone may not identify which allowance is present or absent.

Every result row shows its amount before exclusions, excluded overlap and included amount.
Before exclusions − excluded overlap = monthly total.
Monthly total × 12 is an unchanged-condition reference, not the actual annual entitlement, remaining-year receipts, arrears or settlement amount.

If an approved family condition is missing from the statement, take the family evidence and award notice to the office.
For an unapproved living-adjustment application, first ask about the application and assessment documents.
This output supports a payment inquiry; it does not prove an underpayment.

Limits and practical checks

Registration alone does not make all benefits payable on the same terms.
Education, medical and loan support are not converted into monthly cash here.
Local veterans allowances, war-service honor payments, death lump sums and military retirement pensions remain outside this calculation.

Adult disability continuation, survivor-child extensions after age 25 and legacy unsupported-person conditions require official findings beyond a birth date.
A confirmation checkbox is not evidence or an agency decision.
An input that differs from the notice produces only a hypothetical result.

Unknown or unsupported categories are not converted to zero.
Suspensions and recovery amounts are not deducted speculatively.
For a household budget, use confirmed recurring deposits and add a new allowance after its approval and payment timing are known.
Avoid placing sensitive award documents on public forums.

Frequently asked questions