The Bureau of Pensions: Its History, Activities and Organization |
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... Pension Acts • Civil Service Retirement Pension Administration Pensions on Account of the War with Spain , the ... Invalid Division Widow Division Board of Review Retirement Division Medical Division . 40 4I 42 43 43 44 45 Special ...
... Pension Acts • Civil Service Retirement Pension Administration Pensions on Account of the War with Spain , the ... Invalid Division Widow Division Board of Review Retirement Division Medical Division . 40 4I 42 43 43 44 45 Special ...
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... pension as would be paid an invalid for total disability ; namely , from $ 8 to $ 30 per month , according to the rank of the deceased . An act of July 27 , 1868 ( 15 Stat . L. , 236 ) , made further provision for children of deceased ...
... pension as would be paid an invalid for total disability ; namely , from $ 8 to $ 30 per month , according to the rank of the deceased . An act of July 27 , 1868 ( 15 Stat . L. , 236 ) , made further provision for children of deceased ...
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... pensions , but an amendment of February 19 , 1833 ( 4 Stat . L. , 612 ) , per- mitted invalid pensioners to draw both invalid and service pensions . No further important legislation concerning pensions for survi- vors of the ...
... pensions , but an amendment of February 19 , 1833 ( 4 Stat . L. , 612 ) , per- mitted invalid pensioners to draw both invalid and service pensions . No further important legislation concerning pensions for survi- vors of the ...
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... invalid pension of an enlisted man to $ 8 per month and providing for a higher rate to the lower grades of commissioned officers , likewise applied to survivors of the War of 1812. The same act also granted half - pay pensions for five ...
... invalid pension of an enlisted man to $ 8 per month and providing for a higher rate to the lower grades of commissioned officers , likewise applied to survivors of the War of 1812. The same act also granted half - pay pensions for five ...
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... invalid pension . An amendment to the act of June 27 , 1890 , of slight importance was made by the act of May 9 , 1900 ( 31 Stat . L. , 170 ) . The act of August 5 , 1892 ( 27 Stat . L. , 348 ) , provides a pen- sion of $ 12 per month ...
... invalid pension . An amendment to the act of June 27 , 1890 , of slight importance was made by the act of May 9 , 1900 ( 31 Stat . L. , 170 ) . The act of August 5 , 1892 ( 27 Stat . L. , 348 ) , provides a pen- sion of $ 12 per month ...
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$8 per month 1,800 Assistant Chief 17 Stat 26 Stat 35 Stat 42 Stat act of April act of June act of March adjudication administration annuities April 24 Army and Navy Assistant Chief Clerk attorneys bounty-land Boxer rebellion Bureau of Pensions Chief of Division Chief of Section China relief expedition claimants Commissioner of Pensions Cong employees entitled examining surgeons February 9 fees Files Section Govt half-pay pensions Indian wars Interior Invalid pension July July 14 July 27 June 27 June 30 line of duty March 19 naval service Navy pension fund paid payment of pensions pension acts Pension Bureau pension claims pension laws Pension office pension rates pension system pensionable status persons Philippine Insurrection R. S. Sec Secretary Secretary of War Section Assistant Chief Section Chief Serial service pension sions Spain special acts special examiners survivors tion total disability United Washington Widows and minors
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Page 85 - An Act for the retirement of employees in the classified civil service, and for other purposes," approved May 22, 1920, and Acts amendatory thereof (38 U.
Page 20 - ... without means of support other than her daily labor, and an actual net income not exceeding $250 per year...
Page 48 - They permit the directing personnel to see at a glance the organization and personnel at their disposition. They establish definitely the line of administrative authority and enable each employee to know his place in the system. They furnish the essential basis for making plans for determining costs by organization division and subdivision. They afford the data for a consideration of the problem of classifying and standardizing personnel and compensation. Collectively, they make it possible to determine...
Page vii - ... entire business world. The operations of the government affect the interest of every person living within the jurisdiction of the United States. Its organization embraces stations and centers of work located in every city and in many local subdivisions of the country. Its gross expenditures amount to billions annually. Including the personnel of the military and naval establishments, more than half a million persons are required to do the work imposed by law upon the executive branch of the government....
Page viii - This vast organization has never been studied in detail as one piece of administrative mechanism. Never have the foundations been laid for a thorough consideration of the relations of all of its parts. No comprehensive effort has been made to list its multifarious activities or to group them in such a way as to present a clear picture of what the Government is doing. Never has a complete description been given of the agencies through which these activities are performed. At no time has the attempt...
Page 7 - the age of 62 years and over shall be considered a permanent specific disability within the meaning of the pension laws.
Page vii - ... are almost as varied as those of the entire business world. The operations of the government affect the interest of every person living within the jurisdiction of the United States. Its organization embraces stations and centers of work located in every city and in many local subdivisions of the country. Its gross expenditures amount to nearly $1,000,000,000 annually. Including the personnel of the military and naval establishments, more than 400,000 persons are required to do the work imposed...
Page 87 - Congress has adopted no uniform plan of appropriation for the several services and that the latter employ no uniform plan in respect to the recording and reporting of their receipts and expenditures, it is impossible to present data of this character according to any standard scheme of presentation. In the case of some services the administrative reports contain tables showing financial conditions and operations of the service in considerable detail; in other financial data are almost wholly lacking.
Page 21 - APPROVED MARCH 4, 1917. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the widow of any officer or enlisted man who served ninety days or more in the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps of the United States during the War with Spain, the Chinese Boxer rebellion, or the Philippine insurrection, between April 21, 1898, and July 4, 1902...
Page 6 - ... shall have lost an arm at or above the elbow or a leg at or above the knee, or been totally disabled in the same...