| United States - Military pensions - 1987 - 738 pages
...from specific injuries or combination of injuries. The ratings shall be based, as far as practicable, upon the average impairments of earning capacity resulting from such injuries in civil occupations. The schedule shall be constructed so as to provide ten grades of disability and no more, upon which... | |
| United States. General Accounting Office - Disabled veterans - 1988 - 76 pages
...from specific injuries or combination of injuries. The ratings shall be based, as far as practicable, upon the average impairments of earning capacity resulting from such injuries in civil occupations." 'The disability pension program automatically considers veterans totally disabled if they are 65 years... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs - Veterans - 1978 - 766 pages
...for the disabilities specified in title 38, DSC 314 (a) through (s)? 4. VA compensation is based on "average impairments of earning capacity resulting from such injuries in civil occupations" so there is no penalty for overcoming the handicap of a disability. Thus, many totally disabled veterans... | |
| United States - Government publications - 1997 - 1122 pages
...specific injuries or combination of injuries. The ratings shall be based, as far as practicable, upoc the average impairments of earning capacity resulting from such injuries in civil occupations. The schedule shall be constructed sc as to provide ten grades of disability and no more, upon which... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Veterans' Affairs - History - 2003 - 96 pages
...experience. Pursuant to 38 USC ยง 1155, the disability ratings assigned in the Rating Schedule are based upon the "average impairments of earning capacity...resulting from such injuries in civil occupations" and are to be revised by VA "in accordance with experience." As the statute contemplates, the provisions... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs - Legislative hearings - 1180 pages
...earning capacity from specific injuries or combination of injuries and these, as far as practicable, shall be based upon the average impairments of earning...resulting from such injuries in civil occupations. In this connection, Mr. Chairman, I think that perhaps the opposition to restoring balance to the rating,... | |
| United States. Army - 1917 - 1076 pages
...Ratings may be as high as one hundred per centum. The ratings shall be based, as far as practicable, upon the average impairments of earning capacity resulting from such injuries in civil occupations and not upon the impairment in earning capacity in each individual case, so that there shall be no... | |
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