The Bureau of Pensions was an agency of the federal government of the United States which existed from 1832 to 1930.
In 1828, Congress enacted legislation granting pensions to all remaining American Revolutionary War veterans.
[2] Congress created the Department of the Interior in 1849 and transferred the commissioner of pensions office to it.
Renamed the Bureau of Pensions, the agency had two duties: Assess and either approve or deny claims, and to pay benefits.
[4] Political support came from the Republican Party, and the largest veterans' organization, the Grand Army of the Republic.