Pending Service-connected Disability Compensation and Dependency and Indemnity Compensation Legislation: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Compensation and Pensions of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, United States Senate, Ninety-third Congress, Second Session, on S. 3067, S. 3072, S. 2363 and Related Bills, March 13, 1974 |
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... Benefits Director , Veterans ' Administration , accompanied by James Taaffe , Director , Compensation and Pen- sion Service ; Howard Bernstein , Assistant General Counsel ; and William Holsberg , Chief of Prosthetics , Department of ...
... Benefits Director , Veterans ' Administration , accompanied by James Taaffe , Director , Compensation and Pen- sion Service ; Howard Bernstein , Assistant General Counsel ; and William Holsberg , Chief of Prosthetics , Department of ...
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... Compensation and Pensions. PENDING SERVICE - CONNECTED DISABILITY COMPEN- SATION AND DEPENDENCY AND INDEMNITY COM- PENSATION LEGISLATION WEDNESDAY , MARCH 13 , 1974 U.S. SENATE , SUBCOMMITTEE ON COMPENSATION AND PENSIONS OF THE COMMITTEE ...
... Compensation and Pensions. PENDING SERVICE - CONNECTED DISABILITY COMPEN- SATION AND DEPENDENCY AND INDEMNITY COM- PENSATION LEGISLATION WEDNESDAY , MARCH 13 , 1974 U.S. SENATE , SUBCOMMITTEE ON COMPENSATION AND PENSIONS OF THE COMMITTEE ...
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... Disability Compensation Act of 1974 . This bill would increase the rates of compensation for veterans who have been disabled in or due to their service . Our Nation owes no greater debt than that owed men and women who were disabled in ...
... Disability Compensation Act of 1974 . This bill would increase the rates of compensation for veterans who have been disabled in or due to their service . Our Nation owes no greater debt than that owed men and women who were disabled in ...
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... Disability Compensation Act of 1974 would attempt to restore lost purchasing power by increasing the rates by 15 percent . The fol- lowing table indicates current law and the proposed increases in compensation payments if the Veterans ...
... Disability Compensation Act of 1974 would attempt to restore lost purchasing power by increasing the rates by 15 percent . The fol- lowing table indicates current law and the proposed increases in compensation payments if the Veterans ...
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... Compensation Act of 1974 " . The purpose of the bill is to increase by approximately 15 percent the monthly service - connected disability compensation rates paid to veterans . The basic purpose of the disability compensation program is ...
... Compensation Act of 1974 " . The purpose of the bill is to increase by approximately 15 percent the monthly service - connected disability compensation rates paid to veterans . The basic purpose of the disability compensation program is ...
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Page 26 - ... increases in the cost of living as measured by the Consumer Price Index, OEO revises, from time to time, its income guidelines in order to reflect such increases.
Page 283 - Code, to liberalize the provisions relating to payment of dependency and indemnity compensation, and for other purposes, having considered the same, reports favorably thereon with amendments and recommends that the bill, as amended, do pass.
Page 74 - The ratings shall be based, as far as practicable, upon the average impairments of earning capacity resulting from such injuries in civil occupations...
Page 337 - Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
Page 344 - Administration may be made directly to the beneficiary or to a relative or some other person for the use and benefit of the beneficiary, regardless of any legal disability on the part of the beneficiary. Where, in the opinion of the Administrator, any fiduciary receiving funds on behalf of a Veterans...
Page 329 - ... is blind in .both eyes, with 5/200 visual acuity or less, or is permanently bedridden or so helpless as to be in need of regular aid and attendance, the monthly compensation shall be $216.
Page 184 - ... 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° in the better eye.
Page 337 - Mr. President, I suggest the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll. The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll. Mr.
Page 334 - Administrator any guardian, curator, conservator, or other person is acting as fiduciary in such a number of cases as to make it impracticable to conserve properly the estates or to supervise the persons of the wards, the Administrator is hereby authorized to refuse to make future payments in such cases as he may deem proper: Provided further, That prior to receipt of notice by the Veterans...
Page 334 - II hereof, where no guardian, curator, or conservator of the person under a legal disability has been appointed under the laws of the State of residence of the claimant, the director shall determine the person who is otherwise legally vested with the care of the claimant or his estate.