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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... less than total in degree so as to reestablish a proportionate ratio among such rates which existed prior to 1952. To accomplish this , the rate for a 90 percent disability would be set at $ 180 and the rates of compensation payable for ...
Page 2164
... less than 50 per- cent by only 5 percent whereas the higher rates were increased 15 percent . In discussing such difference in the percentage increases proposed by the bill that became Public Law 356 , it was explained on the floor of ...
... less than 50 per- cent by only 5 percent whereas the higher rates were increased 15 percent . In discussing such difference in the percentage increases proposed by the bill that became Public Law 356 , it was explained on the floor of ...
... less than 50 percent shall be entitled to , additional com- pensation for dependents in the following amounts : ( 1 ) If and while rated totally disabled and- has a wife but no child living , $ 23 ; has a wife and one child living ...
Page 2167
... less than 50 percent are generally able to supplement their compensation payments with other income . In view of the basic justification for the additional allowances for dependents we do not believe that these veterans as a group need ...
... less than 50 percent are generally able to supplement their compensation payments with other income . In view of the basic justification for the additional allowances for dependents we do not believe that these veterans as a group need ...
Page 2169
... less severely disabling than the multiple or combined dis- abilities for which the maximum rate of $ 450 monthly is provided . The Veterans ' Administration does not have available data upon which to base an accurate estimate of the ...
... less severely disabling than the multiple or combined dis- abilities for which the maximum rate of $ 450 monthly is provided . The Veterans ' Administration does not have available data upon which to base an accurate estimate of the ...
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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 2189 - Be it enacted by the Senate and Bouse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Housing Amendments of 1957".
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 2269 - ... (1) If the disabled person, as the result of service-incurred disability, has suffered the anatomical loss, or loss of use of both hands, or...
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), -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...