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PUBLIC LAW 356-MAY 23, 1952

. • May 23, 1952

[H.R.4394J

Public Law 356

[66 S T A T.

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rp^j provide certain increases in the monthly rates of compensation and pension payable to veterans and their dependents, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all monthly and pensions. rates of Compensation payable under laws administered by the Veterans' Administration for disability rated 10 per centum to 49 per centum are hereby increased by 5 per centum, and for disability rated 50 per centum to 100 per centum are hereby increased by 15 per centum: Provided, That such increases shall not apply to special awards and allowances, dependency allowances, or subsistence allowances. SEC. 2. (a) Paragraph I (f), part III, A^eterans Regulation ch^^2'^^'*°**'°"" Numbered 1 (a), as amended, is hereby amended to read as follows: "(f) The amount of pension payable under the terms of part III shall be $63 monthly, except— "(1) that where an otherwise eligible person shall have been rated permanent and total and in receipt of pension for a continuous period of ten years or reaches the age of sixty-five years, the amount of pension shall be $75 monthly; and "(2) that Avhere an otherwise eligible person is or hereafter becomes, on account of age or physical or mental disabilities, helpless or blind or so nearly helpless or blind as to need or require the regular aid and attendance of another person, the amount of pension shall be $129 monthly." (b) The provisions of subsection (a) of this section shall apply to veterans of both World War I and World W a r II. SEC. 3. Paragraph IV of part I of Veterans Regulation Numbered ch^iif^ "°**'°"' ^ (a), as amended, is hereby amended to read as follows: "IV. The surviving widow, child or children, and dependent mother or father of any deceased person who died as the result of injury or disease incurred in or aggravated by active military or naval service as provided in part I, paragraph I, hereof, shall be entitled to receive compensation at the monthly rates specified next below. "Widow but no child, $75; widow with one child, $121 (with $29 for each additional child); no widow but one child, $67; no widow but two children, $94 (equally divided); no widow but three children, $122 (equally divided) (with $23 for each additional child; total amount to be equally divided); dependent mother or father, $60 (or both), $35 each." SEC. 4. Section 2 of Public Law Numbered 484, Seventy-third Const use 5\M.^' gress, as amended, is hereby amended to read as follows: "SEC. 2. That the monthly rates of pension shall be as follows: Widow but no child, $48; widow and one child, $60 (with $7.20 for each additional child); no widow but one child, $26; no widow but two children, $39 (equally divided); no widow but three children, $52 (equally divided) with $7.20 for each additional child (the total amount to be equally divided)." SEC. 5. (a) All monthly rates of pension payable to veterans of the Spanish-American War, including the Boxer Rebellion and the Philippine Insurrection, and dependents of such veterans which are payable under laws reenacted by the Act of August 13, 1935 (49 Stat. 614; 38 U.S.C. 368, 369), or under Acts amendatory or supplemental to such laws, are hereby increased by 71/2 P^r centum. (b) All monthly rates of pension payable to veterans of the Civil W a r and dependents of such veterans which are payable under any public laws administered by the Veterans' Administration are hereby increased by 7^2 per centum. Veterems. C o m p e n s ation

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