Increased Compensation and Pensions, Income Limitations, Dependency Allowances, Cadet Service, Tuberculosis, Creative Organ: Hearings Before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, Eighty-second Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 4394 ... [et Al.].

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1952 - Military pensions - 138 pages
Considers (82) H.R. 4394, (82) S. 2451, (82) H.R. 4108, (82) S. 2640, (82) S. 651, (82) H.R. 4387, (82) S. 2641, (82) S. 503, (82) S. 505, (82) H.R. 2384, (82) S. 1198, (82) H.R. 316, (82) H.R. 318.

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Page 19 - ... (e) has no wife but one child living, $11.20; (f) has no wife but two children living, $19.60; (g) has no wife but three or more children living, $28; (h) has a mother or father, either or both dependent upon him for support, then, in addition to the above amounts, $14 for each parent so dependent.
Page 38 - 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 34 - That any person who shall have served in the active service in the Armed Forces of the United States on or after June 27, 1950, and prior to such date as shall thereafter be determined by Presidential proclamation or concurrent resolution of the Congress, shall, subject to other provisions of law and Veterans Regulations administered by the Veterans...
Page 8 - All public laws granting medical or hospital treatment, domiciliary care, compensation and other allowances, pensions, disability allowance, or retirement pay to veterans and the dependents of veterans of the Spanish-American War, including the Boxer Rebellion and the Philippine Insurrection, and...
Page 39 - ... and who was discharged therefrom under conditions other than dishonorable, or who, having served less than 90 days, was discharged for disability incurred in service in line of duty.
Page 40 - II or of service on or after June 27, 1950, and prior to such date as shall thereafter be determined by Presidential proclamation or concurrent resolution of the Congress, who is entitled to compensation under the laws administered by the Veterans...
Page 18 - That any person entitled to compensation at wartime rates for disability incurred in or aggravated by active service as provided in part I, or paragraph I (c), part II, Veterans Regulation Numbered 1 (a), as amended, or the World War Veterans...
Page 52 - ... as a direct result of armed conflict, or (2) while engaged in extrahazardous service, including such service under conditions simulating war, or (3) while the United States is engaged in war.
Page 39 - Total disability will be considered 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...
Page 81 - Contributory cause of death is inherently one not related to the principal cause. In determining whether the serviceconnected disability contributed to death, it must be shown that it contributed substantially or materially; that it combined to cause death; that it aided or lent assistance to the production of death. It is not sufficient to show that it casually shared In producing death. but rather it must be shown that there was a causal connection.

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