LONGEVITY STUDY BY PLUS OR MINUS FACTOR (GROUP 1 OR GROUP 2) CARD COUNT SPREAD COL. 29 10-19% 20-29% 30-39% 40-49% 50-59% %69-09 70-79% %68-08 %66-06 100% LONGEVITY STUDY BY YEAR OF BIRTH (GROUPS 1 OR 2) Total c.c. Exhibit 2 10 10 Total Exhibit 1 Study of longevity with respect to service-connected disability ratings (group I) where such disabilities cause or contributed to veteran's death versus those death cases (group II) where disabilities (service connected) did not cause or contribute to death Total years, group I. Average years: Average, group I, years. -46,990 -12.1 Cases, group II.. 7, 127 Years, group II. Group I versus group II, 12.1 minus 7.6 equals 4.5 years. Group I longevity is shown to be 4.5 years less than group II. Group II longevity is shown as 7.6 years less than shown by standard longevity chart. -54, 274 Mr. DORN. Mr. Patterson, I think the chairman would like for the subcommittee to meet in the morning at 10 o'clock to hear the Veterans' Administration. COUNSEL. That is right. Mr. DORN. There is no further business before the subcommittee. I declare it adjourned until 10 o'clock tomorrow morning when we will hear the officials of the Veterans' Administration. (Whereupon, at 11:10 a.m., Wednesday, April 26, 1961, the subcommittee adjourned, to reconvene at 10 a.m., Thursday, April 27, 1961.) MISCELLANEOUS COMPENSATION LEGISLATION THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1961 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SUBCOMMITTEE ON COMPENSATION AND PENSIONS The subcommittee met at 10 a.m., pursuant to notice, in room 356, Old House Office Building, Hon. W. J. Bryan Dorn, chairman of the subcommittee, presiding. STATEMENTS OF D. C. KNAPP, ACTING ASSISTANT GENERAL COUNSEL, VETERANS' ADMINISTRATION; TIMOTHY F. DALEY, ACTING ASSISTANT GENERAL COUNSEL, VETERANS' ADMINISTRATION; A. W. STRATTON, DIRECTOR, COMPENSATION AND PENSION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS' BENEFITS, VETERANS' ADMINISTRATION; AND H. F. MOORE, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR FOR POLICY AND PLANNING, COMPENSATION AND PENSION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS' BENEFITS, VETERANS' ADMINISTRATION Mr. DORN. The subcommittee will come to order. We are glad to have with us this morning, Mrs. Thomas Jeffrey, a citizen of North Carolina, the State of our able Congressman, Mr. Kornegay. We are happy to have with us this morning, Mr. Donald C. Knapp, Assistant General Counsel of the Veterans' Administration, whose office has general responsibility for, and jurisdiction of matters, relating to service-connected compensation and insurance. We are happy to have Mr. Knapp with us because he is a very responsive and competent witness. Accompanying him is Mr. A. W. Stratton, who is head of the Compensation and Pension Service of the Department of Veterans' Benefits, and is an old friend of the committee, rather a young friend of the committee. I hope that Mr. Stratton, at an appropriate time, will comment upon the complaint made by two service-connected veterans, who are paralyzed and who are presently being treated at the Veterans' Administration hospital in Richmond, concerning their difficulties in receiving compensation checks and the delays generally which have occurred as a result of the utilization of the automatic data processing at Hines, Ill. Also with Mr. Knapp is Mr. Timothy F. Daley, an Assistant General Counsel of the Veterans' Administration, who has general charge of death compensation and disability and death pensions in the legal and legislative field for the Veterans' Administration. We are happy to have him with us, too, and consider him an old friend. 6870961 -11 733 |