Miscellaneous Compensation Legislation: Hearing...Eighty- Sixth Congress, Second Session...March 22 and 23, 1960Considers H.R. 113 and related bills, to amend veterans compensation and pension programs regarding compensation severence; amounts of compensation payments; disability eligibility; cancer, tuberculosis, multiple sclerosis, and mental illness; dependent compensation payments and POW compensation. |
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1st sess 50 percent 86th Cong 86th Congress active service additional compensation aid and attendance America in Congress American Legion amount AMVETS attendance allowance Benefits Act BILL To amend BRADFORD MORSE Chairman child chronic disease chronic functional psychoses Committee on Veterans compensation for dependents compensation rates conclusive presumption Congress assembled D.C. DEAR date of separation death compensation degree of disability dependency and indemnity disability compensation disabled veterans DORN DRIVER effect enacted entitled favorable consideration found on examination House of Representatives increase incurred indemnity compensation laws administered legislation lieu thereof mitral regurgitation month multiple sclerosis non-service-connected OLIN E parent payable payment peacetime pensation presumption of service presumptive period proposed Public Law rates of compensation receive schedule section 314 Senate and House service connection service-connected death service-connected disability subcommittee survivors TEAGUE tion title 38 United States Code veterans rated W. J. BRYAN DORN widow World War II
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Page 2186 - Act of 1946, as amended, is hereby amended by striking out "from the Territories" (2) Clause (b) of section 1 of the Civil Service Retirement Act of May 29, 1930, as amended (70 Stat. 743) is hereby amended by striking out "from a Territory".
Page 2178 - The ratings shall be based, as far as practicable, upon the average impairments of earning capacity resulting from such injuries in civil occupations...
Page 2257 - 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 2164 - ... (e) has no wife but one child living, $14; (f) has no wife but two children living, $24.50; (g) has no wife but three or more children living, $35; (h) has a mother or father, either or both dependent upon him for support, then, in addition to the above amounts, $17.50 for each parent so dependent.
Page 2156 - Regulation No. 1 (a) provides, "That for the purposes of paragraph I (a) hereof a chronic disease becoming manifest to a degree of 10 percent or more within 1 year from the date of separation from active service...
Page 2179 - ... (5) Hansen's disease developing a 10 per centum degree of disability or more within three years from the date of separation from such service; shall be considered to have been Incurred in or aggravated by such service, notwithstanding there is no record of evidence of such disease during the period of service.
Page 2184 - For the purposes of section 310 of this title, and subject to the provisions of section 313 of this title, in the case of any veteran who served for ninety days or more during a period of war...
Page 2168 - Regulation No. 1 (a), part I, paragraph I, subparagraph (c), -asť amended, provides generally that a chronic disease (other than active tuberculosis and multiple sclerosis) becoming manifest to a degree of 10 percent or more within 1 year from the date of separation from active service...
Page 2158 - Is seeking service connection for any disability due consideration shall be given to the places, types, and circumstances of his service as shown by his service record, the official history of each organization in which he served, his medical records, and all pertinent medical and lay evidence.
Page 2258 - Provided further. That 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 by deserting the service, or by absenting himself without leave, materially interfering with the performance of military duties; (2) was confined under sentence of court martial or civil court...