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 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), -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...

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