Bills to Increase Compensation Payments to Service-connected Disabled Veterans: Hearings, Ninety-second Congress, Second Session ... May 23 and 24, 1972 |
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Page 2394
... blindness is relatively small . However , the problems of the individual blinded veteran and his family in adjusting to blindness can be great . Therefore , the Blinded Veter- ans Association has concentrated its efforts since its ...
... blindness is relatively small . However , the problems of the individual blinded veteran and his family in adjusting to blindness can be great . Therefore , the Blinded Veter- ans Association has concentrated its efforts since its ...
Page 2396
... blindness receives a widow's pension of at least $ 200.00 a month . Also the children's allowances are doubled to the widow on the veter- Ian's death . Thus , we understand that the widow of a Canadian blinded veteran with three ...
... blindness receives a widow's pension of at least $ 200.00 a month . Also the children's allowances are doubled to the widow on the veter- Ian's death . Thus , we understand that the widow of a Canadian blinded veteran with three ...
Page 2397
... blindness must be considered a multiple , not a single , disability . Although a blind person may have both hands , his use of them is limited when one of them generally is given over to handling a cane or a guide dog ; when he is being ...
... blindness must be considered a multiple , not a single , disability . Although a blind person may have both hands , his use of them is limited when one of them generally is given over to handling a cane or a guide dog ; when he is being ...
Page 2399
... blindness , is rated the same as it would be for a sighted person . We think it is a simple matter of recognition that he cannot be rated in the same way because he cannot fall back on his sense of sight . He must depend on those other ...
... blindness , is rated the same as it would be for a sighted person . We think it is a simple matter of recognition that he cannot be rated in the same way because he cannot fall back on his sense of sight . He must depend on those other ...
Page 2409
... blindness in one eye , extensive muscle damage and severe symptoms associated with various diseases covering all systems of the body . The Disabled American Veterans believes that the extension of dependency allowance payments to all ...
... blindness in one eye , extensive muscle damage and severe symptoms associated with various diseases covering all systems of the body . The Disabled American Veterans believes that the extension of dependency allowance payments to all ...
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11 of title 92D CONGRESS adjustments administrative error Administrator of Veterans amend title 38 amount amputees AMVETS authority base period BILL To amend calendar quarter Chairman clothing allowance Committee on Veterans COMPENSATION AND PENSION compensation increase compensation payable CONGRESS THE LIBRARY Consumer Price Index cost of living Cost-of-living increases D.C. DEAR dependents determines Disabled American Veterans DORN eligible enactment end thereof entitled equitable FLAHERTY Foreign Wars forfeiture HAMMERSCHMIDT HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES increase under subsection indemnity compensation inserting in lieu LARRY WINN last increased legislation LIBRARY OF CONGRESS lieu thereof loss or loss LOUISE DAY HICKS MONTGOMERY month multiple of $0.10 Olin E peacetime Pension Act percent proposal prosthesis prosthetic appliances psychosis Public Law rates of disability recommend RESS SCHNAIR section 314 section 9 SESSION H. R. statement statutory awards subparagraph Thank thereof the following United States Code Veterans of Foreign Vietnam W. J. BRYAN DORN waiver wartime wear
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Page 2417 - The ratings shall be based, as far as practicable, upon the average impairments of earning capacity resulting from such injuries in civil occupations...
Page 2420 - Not more than one award of pension, compensation, or emergency officers' or regular retirement pay shall be made concurrently to any person based on his own service. The receipt of pension or compensation by a widow, child, or parent on account of the death of any person, or receipt by any person of pension or compensation on account of his own service, shall not bar the payment of pension or compensation on account of the death or disability of any other person.
Page 2379 - Administration, any pension, compensation, or retirement pay otherwise payable shall continue without reduction until the first day of the seventh calendar month following the month of enactment hereof, or the month of admission of such veteran for treatment or care, whichever Is the later.
Page 2363 - For purposes of paragraph (1) — (A) the term "price index" means the average over a calendar year of the Consumer Price Index (all items — United States city average) published monthly by the Bureau of Labor Statistics; and (B) the term "base period" means the calendar year 1974.
Page 2421 - Any person who shall knowingly make or cause to be made, or conspire, combine, aid, or assist in, agree to, arrange for, or in any wise procure the making or presentation of a false or fraudulent affidavit, declaration, certificate, statement, voucher, or paper, or writing purporting to be such...
Page 2416 - Mr. ROYBAL. Mr. Chairman, as you know, I am not a member of this subcommittee, but I am very much interested in our policy toward Asia, and I thank you for the opportunity of being present. Reverend de Jaegher, I was interested in the remark you made to the effect that the people of North Vietnam are happy that we are bombing. Father DE JAEGHER. Yes. Mr.
Page 2368 - ... who is being furnished hospital treatment, institutional or domiciliary care by the United States or any political subdivision thereof, has a wife, child or dependent parent the pension, compensation or emergency officers...
Page 2422 - Affairs to be guilty of mutiny, treason, sabotage, or rendering assistance to an enemy of the United States or of its allies shall forfeit all accrued or future benefits under laws administered by the Veterans...
Page 2370 - All compensation or retirement pay which is being withheld pursuant to the provisions of subsections (a) and (b)(l) of section 3203, title 38, United States Code, in effect on the day before the effective date of this Act, shall be paid to the veteran, if competent, in a lump sum.
Page 2420 - Regulation No. 1 (a), part I, paragraph I, subparagraph (c), -as» 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...