This variable is the amount of veterans compensation or pension benefits that a respondent received in month M of year Y. M goes from 1 to 12 and represents the calendar month. Y goes from 1 to 6 and represents the number calendar year for a given SIPP panel. The variable comes from the core file. The relevant SIPP variables are I08AMT1-I08AMT4 in 1984; S08AMT in the 1990, 1991, 1992, and 1993 panels; T08AMT in the 1996, 2001, 2004, and 2008 panels.