Veterans' Benefits in the United States: Findings and Recommendations |
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... loss of family income due to age , disability , or death . Important changes in our society have recently come about which fundamentally affect the justification for veterans ' pen- sions . A practically universal social - security ...
... loss of family income due to age , disability , or death . Important changes in our society have recently come about which fundamentally affect the justification for veterans ' pen- sions . A practically universal social - security ...
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... loss or loss of use of a foot , a hand , or an eye . The higher rates are paid in lieu of the percentage awards , and cover such conditions as loss of both feet , both hands , both eyes , etc. Veterans 50 percent or more disabled ...
... loss or loss of use of a foot , a hand , or an eye . The higher rates are paid in lieu of the percentage awards , and cover such conditions as loss of both feet , both hands , both eyes , etc. Veterans 50 percent or more disabled ...
Page 51
... Government reimbursed the insurance trust fund for losses due to extra hazards of war . The insurance was made available in amounts ranging up to $ 10,000 . Under this pro- gram there are at present nearly 400,000 policies with $ 51.
... Government reimbursed the insurance trust fund for losses due to extra hazards of war . The insurance was made available in amounts ranging up to $ 10,000 . Under this pro- gram there are at present nearly 400,000 policies with $ 51.
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... loss of life to those who participated in the more recent con- flicts has been but a fraction of that faced by the Civil War soldiers . Some risks , however , still remain . Although the mortality rate overall of the Korean conflict was ...
... loss of life to those who participated in the more recent con- flicts has been but a fraction of that faced by the Civil War soldiers . Some risks , however , still remain . Although the mortality rate overall of the Korean conflict was ...
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... 3 Includes Korean conflict bonus . ' Primarily reimbursements to local taxing units for tax losses due to veterans ' home stead exemptions . NOTES . - Figures may not add to totals because of rounding . Source : Bureau of the Census . 104.
... 3 Includes Korean conflict bonus . ' Primarily reimbursements to local taxing units for tax losses due to veterans ' home stead exemptions . NOTES . - Figures may not add to totals because of rounding . Source : Bureau of the Census . 104.
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Page 402 - No pensioner has a vested legal right to his pension. Pensions are the bounties of the government, which congress has the right to give, withhold, distribute, or recall, at its discretion.
Page 406 - SEC. 3. All executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government are authorized and directed to cooperate with the Committee and to furnish it such information and assistance, not inconsistent with law, as it may require in the performance of its duties.
Page 231 - ... providing vocational readjustment and restoring lost educational opportunities to those service men and women whose careers have been interrupted or impeded by reason of active duty...
Page 152 - A permanent total disability shall be taken to exist when there is present any impairment of mind or body which is sufficient to render it impossible for the average person to follow a substantially gainful occupation and where it is reasonably certain that such impairment will continue throughout the life of the disabled person. Notwithstanding this definition the Administrator of Veterans...
Page 402 - All decisions rendered by the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs under the provisions * * * of this title or the regulations issued pursuant thereto, shall be final and conclusive on all questions of law and fact, and no other official or court of the United States shall have jurisdiction to review by mandamus or otherwise any such decision." In 1940 Congress by a further Act, 54 Stat. 1197, 38 USCA § lla-2, provided that: "Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, * * * the decisions of the...
Page 407 - June 30, 1955, the expenditures of the Commission shall be paid out of an allotment made by the President from the appropriation entitled "Emergency Fund for the President — National Defense...
Page 148 - ... (m) If the disabled person, as the result of service-incurred disability, has suffered the anatomical loss or loss of use of two extremities at a level, or with complications, preventing natural elbow or knee action with prosthesis...
Page 48 - while engaged in extrahazardous service, including such service under conditions simulating war
Page 407 - Statutes (31 USC 672) ; section 9 of the act of March 4, 1909 (35 Stat. 1027, 31 USC 673); and section 213 of the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1945 (58 Stat.
Page 140 - World War I, World War II, and Korean conflict veterans and their dependents. While it is easier to promise future benefits than to pay off current obligations, there is particularly danger in following this tendency in the field of veterans