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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... percent ; the cost of food has doubled ; the cost of clothing has increased by 80 percent . If it was not for this inflation the $ 1,000 income limitations for veterans and their dependents would not cause real hardship . A single ...
... percent ; the cost of food has doubled ; the cost of clothing has increased by 80 percent . If it was not for this inflation the $ 1,000 income limitations for veterans and their dependents would not cause real hardship . A single ...
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... percent will be assigned from date of discharge . When service connection is established on any authorized basis , a rating not to exceed 10 percent may be assigned from date of discharge or date of receipt of the evidence on the ...
... percent will be assigned from date of discharge . When service connection is established on any authorized basis , a rating not to exceed 10 percent may be assigned from date of discharge or date of receipt of the evidence on the ...
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... percent disability ? They cannot prove it . Mr. CAMP . Yes ; we receive daily complaints regarding such cases because , as I say , the doctors are busy . They cannot answer every call , and the man might live in a city , not necessarily ...
... percent disability ? They cannot prove it . Mr. CAMP . Yes ; we receive daily complaints regarding such cases because , as I say , the doctors are busy . They cannot answer every call , and the man might live in a city , not necessarily ...
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... compensation that the veterans of World War II draw is more or less of a sliding scale . After they are dis- charged from an institution , the compensation that they are liable to 37 draw may go down as low as 30 percent for.
... compensation that the veterans of World War II draw is more or less of a sliding scale . After they are dis- charged from an institution , the compensation that they are liable to 37 draw may go down as low as 30 percent for.
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... percent for permanent and total dis- ability on tuberculosis , which , of course , is not a substantial sum of money for persons unable to do ordinary manual labor to live on . So , under my bill , regardless of service connection , all ...
... percent for permanent and total dis- ability on tuberculosis , which , of course , is not a substantial sum of money for persons unable to do ordinary manual labor to live on . So , under my bill , regardless of service connection , all ...
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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...