President Barack Obama corrected an egregious error in his speech on Sunday, when he clearly termed the Fort Hood shootings by Maj. Nidal Hasan an act of terrorism. It was never “workplace violence.”

But apparently the U.S. Army isn’t listening. It’s still denying some benefits to survivors of the 2009 attack that left 13 dead and more than 30 wounded.

The president, at least, has acknowledged the obvious.

“As we’ve become better at preventing complex attacks like 9/11, terrorists turn to less complicated acts of violence like the mass shootings that are all too common in our society,” he said on Sunday. “It is this type of attack that we saw at Fort Hood in 2009, in Chattanooga earlier this year and now in San Bernardino.”

Hasan, you’ll recall, is a radical Islamist who had been in contact with terrorist imam Anwar al-Awlaki. When Hasan began his attack, he yelled “Allahu Akbar.” His aims were clearly political; in documents collected for his trial, he wrote “in an American democracy, ‘we the people’ govern according to what ‘we the people’ think is right or wrong, even if it specifically goes against what All-Mighty God commands.”

By any definition, this was an act of terrorism – and an act of war.

But for years, the Department of the Army denied this. In a memo dated June 6, 2012, regarding wounded staff Sgt. Shawn Manning, Col. Daniel Cassidy wrote, “we agree this condition was not the direct result of armed conflict. For the purposes of applying 10A, ‘armed conflict’ requires that this Soldier’s injury be the direct result of the Soldier’s engagement with a hostile or belligerent nation, faction, force or terrorists.”

It went on to conclude, “Maj. Hasan has been charged with criminal activity, but has not been adjudicated a terrorist. Therefore, the clear preponderance of evidence does not support that the injuries sustained were the direct result of armed conflict.”

Congress later stepped in to pass legislation to ensure that the wounded received Purple Heart commendations. But the Army persists in denying benefits.

“Section 571 of the 2015 National Defense Authorization Act addresses both the awarding of the Purple Heart to service members killed or wounded in attacks inspired or motivated by foreign terrorist organizations and the Defense of Freedom Medal for those members and civilians killed or wounded during the Fort Hood attack on 5 November 20009,” an April 6 letter to Manning states. “Nowhere in the act, however, does it offer combat benefits for service members permanently disabled in attacks inspired or motivated by foreign terrorist organizations.”

As Fox News points out, what’s at stake here for Manning and other survivors of Nidal Hasan’s terrorist attack is back pay and as much as $800 per month in additional benefits.

The U.S. Army can fix this by taking Obama’s lead and clearly acknowledging that these injuries were “service-related” combat wounds. Congress can fix this by revisiting legislation awarding these soldiers the Purple Heart.

Either way, it’s time to give these survivors an honor – and the benefits – they deserve.