Uniform Pensions for Indian War Veterans ...: Hearings ... on H.R. 5717 ... January 15, 1952 |
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$120 per month 90 days act of August act of March age pension aid and attendance amended 38 U. S. C. American Legion AMVETS annual death rate approximately 124 Indian approximately 162 August 25 average age average annual death bill to provide BIRDSALL Boxer Rebellion campaign Chairman Civil War veterans Committee on Veterans D. C. DEAR days were discharged December 31 disability or age eight different rates Eighty-second Congress Elizabeth Kee enacted into law expenditures file claim helpless or blind honorably discharged House of Representatives Indian war service Indian war veterans JAMES P. S. DEVEREUX January 19 JOE L less than 90 need of regular October 31 pension for veterans pension of $90 pension payable PENSIONS FOR INDIAN provide uniform rates RANKIN rates of pension Rates per month regular aid service pension law service pension rolls SUBCOMMITTEE total disability UNIFORM PENSIONS Veterans of Foreign W. J. BRYAN DORN Washington 25
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Page 6 - That all persons who served ninety days or more in the military or naval service of the United States during the late war of the rebellion and who have been honorably discharged therefrom, and who are now or who may hereafter be suffering from a mental or physical disability of a permanent character not the result of their own vicious habits...
Page 5 - March 4 ; 1917, even though such campaign was of less than thirty days' duration, in any military organization, whether such person was regularly mustered into the service of the United States or not, but whose service was under the authority or by the approval of the United States or any State or Territory in any Indian war or campaign, or in connection with, or in the zone of, any active Indian hostilities in...
Page 6 - War veteran, under existing service pension laws, and who is now or hereafter may become, by reason of age or physical or mental disabilities, helpless or blind or so nearly helpless or blind as to require the regular aid and attendance of another person, shall be entitled to and shall be paid a pension at the rate of $100 per month.
Page 5 - USC 381-1), shall be $103 unless such veteran is now or hereafter becomes on account of age or physical or mental disabilities, helpless or blind, or so nearly helpless or blind as to need or require the regular aid and attendance of another person, in which event the monthly rate shall be $136.
Page 5 - ... of the Indian wars through the establishment of minimum rates of pension. Section 1 of the act of March 3, 1927 (44 Stat. 1361), as amended (38 USC 381), authorizes the payment of pension to veterans of the Indian wars based on disability or age. Such pension is payable to any veteran who served for 30 days or more in any Indian war or campaign (or during the entire period of a campaign lasting less than 30 days), or in connection with or in the zone of active Indian hostilities, from January...
Page 6 - There is also a small number of veterans of the Spanish-American War, including the Philippine Insurrection and the Boxer Rebellion, who are being paid pensions for non-service-connected disability under the provisions of part III of Veterans Regulation No.