Omnibus Benefits Bill for Service-connected Disabled Veterans: Hearings Before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, Eighty-first Congress, First Session, on H.R. 5598, an Act to Increase Compensation for World War I Presumptive Service-connected Cases, Provide Minimum Ratings for Service-connected Arrested Tuberculosis, Increase Certain Disability and Death Compensation Rates, Liberalize Requirement for Dependency Allowances, and Redefine the Terms "line of Duty" and "willful Misconduct." Aug. 18 and 19, 1949

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Page 5 - July 2, 1921, is discharged or resigns, shall be conclusively held and taken to have been in sound condition when examined, accepted, and enrolled for service...
Page 16 - The ratings shall be based, as far as practicable, upon the average impairments of earning capacity resulting from such injuries in civil occupations...
Page 6 - ... (e) has no wife but one child living, $11.20; (f) has no wife but two children living, $19.60; (g) has no wife but three or more children living, $28; (h) has a mother or father, either or both dependent upon him for support, then, in addition to the above amounts, $14 for each parent so dependent.
Page 17 - ... the surviving widow, child, or children, and/or -dependent mother or father of any World War veteran who died as the result of injury or disease incurred in or aggravated by active military or naval service in the World War...
Page 33 - An injury or disease incurred during military or naval service will be deemed to have been incurred in line of duty and not the result of the veteran's own misconduct when the person on whose account benefits are claimed was, at the time the injury was suffered or disease contracted, in active service in the military or naval forces, whether on active duty or on authorized leave, unless such injury or disease was the result of his own...
Page 4 - Provided, however, That disease, injury, or death incurred without willful misconduct on the part of the service person shall be deemed to have been incurred in line of duty if the sentence of the court martial did not involve an unremitted dishonorable discharge or if the offense for which convicted by civil court did not involve a felony as defined under the laws of the jurisdiction where the service person was convicted by such civil court.
Page 5 - ... line of duty in the military or naval service (except so far as they relate to persons who served prior to the Spanish-American War and to the de'pendents of such persons...
Page 33 - The requirement for line of duty will not be met if it appears that at the time the injury was suffered or disease contracted the person on whose account benefits are claimed (1) was avoiding duty...
Page 18 - War veterans' act of 1924, as amended. Section 200, as amended by the act of July 2, 1926 (44 Stat. 793, 794), provides : For death or disability resulting from personal injury suffered or disease contracted in the military or naval service on or after April 6, 1917, and before July 2, 1921, or for an aggravation or recurrence of a disability...
Page 30 - ... with sites according to military population rather than State lines. We believe there has been too strenuous administration in cases of alleged misconduct through which veterans are being deprived the benefits to which otherwise they are entitled. We are convinced that the presumptive benefits granted under the provisions of section 200 of the World War Veterans...

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