Pensions--civil War: Hearings Before the Committee on Invalid Pensions, House of Representatives, Seventy-sixth Congress, Third Session, on H. R. 917, H. R. 1666, H. R. 2208, H. R. 3386, H. R. 6716, H. R. 6909, H. R. 6927, H.R. 7728, H.R. 7876, and H. R. 7981, Bills to Liberalize the Now Existing Benefits with Reference to Pensions Payable to Dependents of Veterans of the Civil War. January 15 and 16, 1940 |
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$30 a month 76th Cong 90 days Act of June Administrator of Veterans amend Public Law America in Congress ANDERSEN Boxer Rebellion CHAIRMAN Civil War veterans Civil War widows Committee on Invalid Congress assembled Congress be amended CORBETT cost delimiting date delimiting marriage date Department dependents eligible ending dates enlisted entitled to pension existing law Federal figures such widow former widow Government HINES House of Representatives husband increase of pension Invalid Pensions Izac January 28 JOHN LESINSKI June 27 June 9 KELLER Law Numbered 190 laws granting pensions lived marine prior MCELROY old-age assistance paid a pension payable pension laws pensions to widows Philippine Insurrection proposed legislation Public Law Numbered rate of pension receive remarried widows sailor SCHAFER Senate and House Service Pension Act Seventy-sixth Congress Sixty-sixth Congress Social Security Act soldier Spanish-American Spanish-American War United veteran's death War Department widows of Civil widows of veterans wife WORRELL
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Page 18 - That this section shall not apply to an alien who volunteered or who was drafted into or who served in the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps of the United States...
Page 9 - Statutes, shall be proven in compensation or insurance cases to be legal marriages according to the law of the place where the parties resided at the time of marriage...
Page 11 - child " shall mean a legitimate child or a child legally adopted, unmarried, and under the age of eighteen years, unless prior to reaching the age of eighteen, the child becomes or has become permanently incapable of selfsupport by reason of mental or physical defect...
Page 70 - widow" means (except for purposes of Chapter 19 of this title) a woman who was the wife of a veteran at the time of his death, and who lived with him continuously from the date of marriage to the date of his death (except where there was a separation which was due to the misconduct of, or procured by, the veteran without the fault of the...
Page 11 - Persons who served in the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps of the United States during the war of the rebellion (who are survivors) , and widows of such persons, in , County of , State of , enumerated in June, 1890 , Enumerator.
Page 27 - Yes ; the language does say that, to a degree, on the second page, in lines' 1 and 2, "shall be held and considered to have served 90 days." That was the suggestion I was about to make; if that part were stricken from the bill by a committee amendment and it came back to its original intention of only giving those men who can show 90 days of actual service or more by their discharge papers, then I believe it would be quite fair. There is no desire on my part or on the part of those few persons interested...
Page 8 - Interior, provided they are entitled to a pension under the provisions of this act, and the issue of a check in payment of a pension for which the execution and submission of a voucher was not required shall constitute payment in the event of the death of the pensioner on or after the last day of the period covered by such check, and it shall not be canceled, but shall become an asset of the estate of the deceased pensioner.
Page 7 - ... (3) The payment of compensation to or for a child shall continue until such child reaches the age of eighteen years or marries, or if such child be permanently incapable of self-support by reason of mental or physical defect, then during such incapacity.
Page 70 - ... pension has been granted to an insane, idiotic, or otherwise helpless child, or to a child or children under the age of sixteen years, she shall not be entitled to renewal of pension under this Act...
Page 7 - Be it enacted by tlie Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in...