Section 2April 9, 1990, Sec./Art. 2

Definitions. – For the purpose of and when used in this Act, the following terms shall be construed in the sense indicated unless the context of a particular provision clearly indicates that a different sense is intended:

(a) Veteran – any person who rendered military service in the land, sea or air forces of the Philippines during the revolution against Spain, the Philippine-American War, World War II, including Filipino citizens who served in Allied Forces in the Philippine territory and foreign nationals who served in Philippine forces, the Korean Campaign, the Vietnam Campaign, the Anti-Dissidence Campaign, or other wars and military campaigns; or who rendered military service in the Armed Forces of the Philippines and has been honorably discharged or separated after at least six (6) years total cumulative active service, or sooner separated due to death or disability arising from a wound or injury received or sickness or disease incurred in line of duty while in the active service;

(b) Military Personnel – officers, enlisted personnel, draftees and trainees in the active service of the Armed Forces of the Philippines;

(c) Officer – any person holding a commission in the regular or reserve components of the Armed Forces, or probationary officer, or cadet of the Philippine Military Academy or of the flying or naval schools of the Armed Forces of the Philippines;

(d) Enlisted Person – any person enlisted in the Armed Forces;

(e) Draftee – any person who, upon completion of trainee service, is drafted into selective emergency military service for eighteen (18) months or more;

(f) Trainee – any person who, after reaching twenty (20) years of age, is conscripted into the Armed Forces for military training;

(g) Active Service – any active duty in the regular or reserve components of the Armed Forces;

(h) Overseas Service – includes any period of military service commencing from the date of departure from the Philippines for service in foreign territory and terminating upon the date of return to Philippine soil;

(i) Dependent – any spouse, child or parent who is wholly under the care and support of the veteran;

(j) Surviving Spouse – the lawful widow or widower of the deceased veteran, or the innocent spouse if he or she was legally separated by final judicial decree from the deceased;

(k) Children – includes any child entitled to support from the veteran under existing laws;

(l) Minor Children – those who are below eighteen (18) years of age;

(m) Incompetent – describes the state of legal, physical or mental incapacity which makes one wholly dependent upon another for care and support;

(n) Parents – includes, in the absence of parents by nature, a father or mother by adoption and, in the absence of a legal parent, any person who stood in loco parentis to the veteran at least one (1) year prior to his entry into the active service;

(o) Indigent Parents – those whose aggregate income from all sources is deemed inadequate for daily sustenance or places them in the class of those below the poverty line, as determined by the Philippine Veterans Affairs Office based on official figures released by the appropriate government agency;

(p) Political Prisoner – a person who, for acts punishable for public rather than for private reasons which were directed against the welfare, safety and security of the enemy occupation forces during World War II in connection with underground activities or the resistance movement, was imprisoned, maltreated and killed, or died in prison due to ailment or injury; and

(q) Administrator – the head of the Philippine Veterans Affairs Office.

TITLE II

VETERAN'S BENEFITS

PART A.

Educational Benefits