Bureau of Veteran Reestablishment: Hearing Before the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce of the House of Representatives, Sixty-sixth Congress, Third Session, on H. R. 14961

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Page 106 - If at the time that any right accrues to any person under the 'provisions of this article, such person is a minor, or is of unsound mind or physically unable to make a claim, the time herein provided shall not begin to run until such disability ceases.
Page 94 - Colonial wars, the War of the Revolution, the War of 1812, the Mexican War, the Civil War, the SpanishAmerican War, the...
Page 86 - This appropriation shall be disbursed by the Bureau of War Risk Insurance, and such portion thereof as may be necessary shall be allotted from time to time to the Public Health Service, the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, and the War and Navy Departments, and transferred to their credit for disbursement by them for the purposes set forth In this paragraph.
Page 106 - If he has no wife but one child living, $40 with $10 for each additional child up to two. (g) If he has a widowed mother dependent on him for support, then, in addition to the above amounts, $10. To an injured person who is totally disabled and in addition so helpless as to be in constant need of a nurse or attendant, such additional sum shall be paid, but not exceeding $20 per month, as the director may deem reasonable...
Page 108 - ... certain provisions in the war-risk insurance act, more or less remotely related to the subject of compensation, such as the furnishing of reasonable governmental surgical and hospital service, and the rehabilitation, reeducation, and vocational training of certain beneficiaries; also to incorporate into the pension laws a few items in the compensation law which are believed to be just and reasonable, such as including those increasing the rates allowed to widows and dependent parents, and also...
Page 106 - ... be reasonably required, submit himself to examination by a medical officer of the United States or by a duly qualified physician designated or approved by the director. He may have a duly qualified physician designated and paid by him present to participate in such examination. For all examinations he shall, in the discretion of the director, be paid his reasonable traveling and other expenses and also loss of wages incurred in order to submit to such examination.
Page 100 - ... no payment whatsoever of the accrued pension shall be made or allowed, except so much as may be necessary to reimburse the person who bore the expenses of the last sickness and burial of the decedent in cases where he did not leave sufficient assets to meet such expenses.
Page 106 - ... as the director may determine to be useful and reasonably necessary: Provided, That nothing in this Act shall be construed to affect the necessary military control over any member of the military or naval establishments before he shall have been discharged from the military or naval service. (4) The amount of each monthly payment shall be determined according to the family conditions then existing.
Page 98 - Federal agency having control of the project, within 7 days after the payment of each and every weekly pay roll, an affidavit in the form prescribed by regulations issued jointly by the Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of the Interior under date of January 8, 1935, or any modification thereof pursuant to the act of June 13, 1934, 48 Stat. 948 (US Code, title 40, sections 276b and 276c), sworn to by the officer or employee of the...
Page 101 - That compensation under this article shall not be paid while the person is in receipt of service or retirement pay.

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