Service-connected Compensation: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Compensation and Pension, 89-1, on H.R. 168 Etc. April 27-29, 1965 |
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Page 2478
... schedule for rating disabilities " The Administrator is authorized and directed to apply a schedule of ratings of reductions in earning capacity from specific injuries or combination of in- juries . The ratings shall be based , as far ...
... schedule for rating disabilities " The Administrator is authorized and directed to apply a schedule of ratings of reductions in earning capacity from specific injuries or combination of in- juries . The ratings shall be based , as far ...
Page 2497
... schedule for rating disabilities . We feel sure that it is not intended that any disability ratings presently assigned to veterans are to be reduced if the bill is enacted . Accordingly , a minimum rating in such cases is probably ...
... schedule for rating disabilities . We feel sure that it is not intended that any disability ratings presently assigned to veterans are to be reduced if the bill is enacted . Accordingly , a minimum rating in such cases is probably ...
Page 2503
... Schedule for Rating Disabilities , which the Veterans ' Administra- tion utilizes in determining the degree of a given veteran's loss of earning capac ity , active tuberculosis - whether minimal , moderately advanced , or far ad- vanced ...
... Schedule for Rating Disabilities , which the Veterans ' Administra- tion utilizes in determining the degree of a given veteran's loss of earning capac ity , active tuberculosis - whether minimal , moderately advanced , or far ad- vanced ...
Page 2504
... Schedule for Rating Disabilities follows the requirements of 38 U.S.C. 355 that ratings be based , as far as practicable , upon the average impairment of earning capacity resulting from such injuries in civil occupations . The veteran ...
... Schedule for Rating Disabilities follows the requirements of 38 U.S.C. 355 that ratings be based , as far as practicable , upon the average impairment of earning capacity resulting from such injuries in civil occupations . The veteran ...
Page 2513
... schedule of ratings of reductions in earning capacity from specific injuries or combination of injuries . This provision ( now 38 U.S.C. 355 ) provides that the " rating shall be based , as far as practicable , upon the average ...
... schedule of ratings of reductions in earning capacity from specific injuries or combination of injuries . This provision ( now 38 U.S.C. 355 ) provides that the " rating shall be based , as far as practicable , upon the average ...
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11 of title 1st sess 50 percent 89th Cong 89th Congress additional compensation Administrator of Veterans aggravated amend title 38 America in Congress amount amyotrophic lateral sclerosis benefits BILL To amend Chairman compensation for dependents compensation payable pursuant compensation rates Congress assembled connection cost of living date of enactment death compensation dependency and indemnity disability compensation disability rating disabled veterans DORN earning capacity entitled existing law former prisoners Hansen's disease House of Representatives impairment income increase incurred indemnity compensation inserting in lieu intervertebral foramen legislation lieu thereof monthly multiple sclerosis OLIN E paraplegia payment peacetime pensation pension plaintiff poliomyelitis presumptive period prisoners of war proposes Public Law rates of disability receive result retirement pay schedule for rating section 312 Senate and House service-connected disability striking subparagraph subsection suffered TEAGUE thereof the following tion total disability United States Code W. J. BRYAN DORN wartime service widow World War II
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Page 2573 - The ratings shall be based, as far as practicable, upon the average impairments of earning capacity resulting from such injuries in civil occupations...
Page 2477 - Central visual acuity of 20/200 or less in the better eye, with corrective glasses, or central visual acuity of more than 20/200 if there is a field defect in which the peripheral field has contracted to such an extent that the widest diameter of visual field subtends an angular distance no greater than 20 degrees in the better eye.
Page 2504 - 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 2521 - Where the tort itself is of such a nature as to preclude the ascertainment of the amount of damages with certainty, it would be a perversion of fundamental principles of justice to deny all relief to the injured person, and thereby relieve the wrongdoer from making any amend for his acts.
Page 2521 - In such case, while the damages may not be determined by mere speculation or guess, it will be enough if the evidence show the extent of the damages as a matter of just and reasonable inference, although the result be only approximate.
Page 2533 - I of this regulation, if the disability resulted from an injury or disease received in line of duty (1) as a direct result of armed conflict, or (2) while engaged in extra hazardous service, including such service under conditions simulating war, or (3) while the United States is engaged in war.
Page 2484 - ... as a result of nonservice-connected disability not the result of his own willful misconduct, the Administrator shall assign and pay to the veteran concerned the applicable rate of compensation under this chapter as if his blindness in both eyes or such bilateral kidney involvement were the result of service-connected disability.
Page 2521 - In an action for a personal injury, the local law of the state where the injury occurred determines the rights and liabilities of the parties, unless, with respect to the particular issue, some other state has a more significant relationship under the principles stated in § 6 to the occurrence and the parties, in which event the local law of the other state will be applied.
Page 2574 - dependency and indemnity compensation" means a monthly payment made by the Administrator to a widow, child, or parent (A) because of a service-connected death occurring after December 31, 1956, or (B) pursuant to the election of a widow, child. or parent, in the case of such a death occurring before January 1, 1957.
Page 2494 - ... disability bears to total disability. The amounts payable under this paragraph shall be adjusted upward or downward to the nearest dollar, counting fifty cents and over as a whole dollar.