Bills to Increase Compensation Rates and to Increase Pension Income Limitations and Rates: Hearings, Ninety-first Congress, Second Session ... May 26 and 27, June 3, 1970 |
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50 percent additional adjustments Administration aid and attendance amendment American Legion AMVETS annual income limitations average bill BRARY BRESSI compensation payments compensation rates CONGRESS THE LIBRARY connected consideration Consumer Price Index cost of living cost-of-living increase dependency and indemnity dependent parents disability compensation diseases DORN eligible enacted entitled fixed incomes Foreign Wars former prisoners GOLEMBIESKI Honorable increase in social increase the rates indemnity compensation inflation JOHN PAUL HAMMERSCHMIDT legislation LIBRARY OF CONGRESS MONTGOMERY month non-service-connected pension payable peacetime pension law pension payments pension program pension rates prisoners of war proposed Public Law Quadriplegic rates of disability regular aid retirement ROSSIGNUOLO SAYLOR Senate seriously disabled service-connected disabled veterans social security benefits social security increase Social Security Payments Spanish-American War STAFF DIRECTOR STATEMENT subcommittee suffered Thank tion title 38 United States Code urge Veterans of Foreign veterans of World Veterans Pension W. J. BRYAN DORN wartime World War II WYLIE
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Page 2776 - The ratings shall be based, as far as practicable, upon the average impairments of earning capacity resulting from such injuries in civil occupations...
Page 2828 - On this side there have been intense feeling and energetic action. Congress has passed a law authorizing the building and equipment of six steam revenue cutters for service on the lakes. The House of Representatives has passed and sent to the Senate a bill, which requests the President to give the notice needful for bringing to an end the reciprocity treaty. Mr. Chandler, one of the senators of Michigan in Congress, has submitted to the Senate resolutions, of which a copy is hereunto annexed.
Page 2747 - ... greatest amounts of pension payable to those with the greatest need. Basic disability pension rates for veterans range from...
Page 2776 - ... introduced at the request of the Veterans' Administration, proposes to remove this disparity and thus authorize the same rates of compensation, and amounts of additional compensation, whether the service of the veteran concerned was during wartime or peacetime. The general pension law of July 14, 1862, provided pension (now designated compensation) for service-connected disability or death and made no distinction between service in time of war and peacetime service. The amendment of October 6,...
Page 2776 - The dependents of any deceased veteran, whose death resulted from an injury or disease received in line of duty as...
Page 2773 - The following will be accorded consideration in determining the need for regular aid and attendance: Inability of claimant to dress or undress himself, or to keep himself ordinarily clean and presentable; frequent need of adjustment of any special prosthetic or orthopedic appliances which by reason of the particular disability cannot be done without aid (this will not include the adjustment of appliances which normal persons would be unable to adjust without aid, such as supports, belts, lacing at...
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Page 2771 - Mr. Chairman. I am not a member of this subcommittee, but I am interested in the subject like all of us here present.
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Page 2754 - Vietnam era, or by their respective agents, shall be deemed to have suffered from dietary deficiencies, forced labor, or inhumane treatment in violation of the terms of the Geneva Conventions of July 27, 1929, and August 12, 19*9.