Providing Statutory Awards for Arrested Tuberculosis; Increasing Income Limitations for Pension Purposes; and Granting Presumtive Service Connection for Tropical Diseases: Hearings Before Subcommittee on Compensation and Pensions |
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... doctors here that will be able to give you a better insight on the particular diseases than I can . I am a Congressman and not a doctor . Mr. MATHEWS . But , as I understand it , if they are from the VA they can clarify this : That if ...
... doctors here that will be able to give you a better insight on the particular diseases than I can . I am a Congressman and not a doctor . Mr. MATHEWS . But , as I understand it , if they are from the VA they can clarify this : That if ...
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... doctor themselves . I know you saw the same thing . Mr. SARBACHER . What I am particularly concerned about with ref- erence to this particular disease of malaria is the fact that many of us went through the Tropics and had malaria and ...
... doctor themselves . I know you saw the same thing . Mr. SARBACHER . What I am particularly concerned about with ref- erence to this particular disease of malaria is the fact that many of us went through the Tropics and had malaria and ...
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... doctor in Vet- erans ' Administration within a year after being discharged from the service with malaria , then there is a question in the doctor's mind , because he has the boy's health record , and there is no indication of malaria ...
... doctor in Vet- erans ' Administration within a year after being discharged from the service with malaria , then there is a question in the doctor's mind , because he has the boy's health record , and there is no indication of malaria ...
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... Doctor : In your opin- ion , is there now , in addition to the present rating schedule and regu- lations of the Veterans ' Administration , a necessity for legislation to cover cases which might not be covered by those existing regula ...
... Doctor : In your opin- ion , is there now , in addition to the present rating schedule and regu- lations of the Veterans ' Administration , a necessity for legislation to cover cases which might not be covered by those existing regula ...
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... doctor 40 or 50 miles away , he may not be able to furnish satisfactory proof to the Veterans ' Administration at that time , and perhaps not until after a year . Well , in these cases , unless the man has filed a claim within a year ...
... doctor 40 or 50 miles away , he may not be able to furnish satisfactory proof to the Veterans ' Administration at that time , and perhaps not until after a year . Well , in these cases , unless the man has filed a claim within a year ...
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1-year period 80th Cong active tuberculosis Administration amended America in Congress American Legion AMVETS annual income exceeds arrested tuberculosis atabrin attack award for arrested benefits BROOKS Buerger's disease CAMP Captain SAPERO Chairman chronic diseases complete arrest conclusive presumption condition Congress assembled dependents Disabled American Veterans doctor DONOHUE enacted endemic entitled filariasis Foreign Wars hearings House of Representatives income limitations incubation period inserted KRAABEL legislation leprosy loiasis malaria MATHEWS medical evidence months non-service-connected onchocerciasis oroya fever paragraph PATTERSON payments present presumption of service Public Law Numbered question rating schedule reasonable receive record rehabilitation REINMUTH relapses or recurrences SARBACHER schistosomiasis Senate and House service connection service-connected disability SHAPIRO STANDISH statement statutory award STEVENS STIGLER subcommittee Thank tion totally disabled tropical diseases tuberculous disease VAIL Veterans of Foreign veterans of World Veterans Regulation Numbered widows and children WILLIAMSON WOLFORD World War II
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Page 58 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Public, Numbered 62, Seventysixth Congress, approved May 3, 1939 (53 Stat.
Page 75 - Seventy-first Congress amended section 202 (7) in Public Law 522 approved July 3, 1930 to make further provision for cases of arrested tuberculosis, adding this sentence in the section : "The director is hereby authorized and directed to insert in the rating schedule a minimum rating of permanent partial 25 per centum for arrested or apparently cured tuberculosis.
Page 86 - September 16, 1940, and prior to the termination of the present war, and who shall have been discharged or released from active service under conditions other than dishonorable, after active service of...
Page 87 - II. (a) Payment of pension provided by part III, except as provided in paragraph 1 (g), shall not be made to any unmarried person whose annual income exceeds $1,200 or to any married person or any person with minor children whose annual income exceeds $2,500.
Page 33 - Act, as amended, the World War Veterans' Act, 1924, as amended, or the National Service Life Insurance Act of 1940, as amended, shall not in the aggregate exceed $10,000.
Page 33 - In determining whether other members of the family under legal age are factors in necessary expenses of the mother or father, consideration will be given to any Income from business or property (including trusts) actually available, directly or indirectly, to the mother or father for the support of the minor but not to the corpus of the estate or the income of the minor which is not so available.
Page 32 - ... reasonable that some part of the corpus of the claimant's estate be consumed for his or her maintenance. (3) Foreign residents. There is no conclusive presumption of dependency. Dependency will be determined on the facts in the individual case under the principles outlined in this section. (b) Basic rule. Dependency will be held to exist if the father or mother of the veteran does not have an income sufficient to provide reasonable maintenance for such father or mother and members of his or her...
Page 33 - ... (including trusts) actually available, directly or indirectly, to the mother or father for the support of the minor but not to the corpus of the estate or the income of the minor which is not so available. (c) Inception of dependency. The fact that the veteran has made habitual contributions to his father or mother, or both, is not conclusive evidence that dependency existed but will be considered in connection with all other evidence. In death claims, it is not material whether dependency arose...
Page 74 - That any ex-service person shown to have had a tuberculous disease of a compensable degree, who in the judgment of the director has reached a conilition of complete arrest of his disease...
Page 86 - No insurance shall be payable for death inflicted as a lawful punishment for crime or for military or naval offense, except...