I read yesterday that two people in the U.S. are still receiving disability pensions from the Civil War, 148 years after it ended. They are both the children of Civil War veterans who were themselves disabled their entire lives and unable to work. Probably, their fathers died when they were very young.
There are a few people left in their 80s who got pensions up until age 18, after their Civil War veteran fathers died in the 1930s. See: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/ap-costs-us-wars-linger-over-100-years - Jed
