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PUBLIC LAW 744-AUG. 31, 1954

FUing date. Legal disability or death. 50 USC a p p. 2004(e).

50 USC 2005(d).

Payment claims. 50 USC 2012.

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Estimates and transfers of funds. 62 Stat. 1247.

s o u s e 2004(f).

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"(b) Claims must be filed under this section within one year after the date of enactment of this section. "(c) Where any individual entitled to payment under this section is under any legal disability, payment may be made in accordance with the provisions of subsection (e) of section 5 of this Act. I n the case of the death of any individual entitled to payment of any claim under this section, payment of such claim shall be made to the individuals specified, an(i in the order provided, in subsection (d) of section 6 of this Act; except that no payment shall be made under this section to any individual who voluntarily, knowingly, and without duress, gave aid to or collaborated with or in any manner served any government hostile to the United States during World W a r II. " (d) Each claim allowed under this section shall oe certified to the Secretary of the Treasury for payment out of the W a r Claims Fund established under section 13 of this Act. The Secretary of the Treasury shall pay such claims as follows: "(1) In the case of each claim allowed in an amount equal to or less than $500, such claim shall be paid in full; and "(2) In the case of each claim allowed in an amount greater than $500, such claim shall be paid in two installments. The first installment shall be paid in an amount equal to $500 plus 66% per centum of the amount of such claim allowed in excess of $500. The last installment shall be computed as of September 1, 1956, under the next sentence of this paragraph, and, as so computed, shall be paid from the sums remaining in the War Claims Fund on that date. If the sums remaining in the W a r Claims Fund on September 1, 1956, are sufficient to satisfy all claims allowed under this section and not paid in full, the unpaid portion of each such claim shall be paid in full; if the sums remaining in the War Claims Fund on September 1, 1956, are not sufficient to satisfy all claims allowed under this section and not paid in full, the last installment payable on each such claim shall be reduced ratably, and, as so reduced, shall be paid from the W a r Claims Fund. SEC. 104. (a) Section 13 of the War Claims Act of 1948, as amended (50 App. U.S.C. sec. 2012), is hereby amended by striking out subsections (b) and (c) thereof, and by inserting immediately after subsection (a) thereof the following: " (b) Before August 1, 1956, the Secretary of Labor shall estimate and report to the President the total amount which will be required to pay all benefits payable by reason of section 5(f) of this Act. If the President approves the amount so estimated as reasonably accurate, the total amount so estimated and approved shall be certified to the Secretary of the Treasury; if the President does not so approve he shall determine such amount, and the amount so determined shall be certified to the Secretary of the Treasury. Such certification shall be made on or before September 1, 1956. The Secretary of the Treasury shall then transfer from the War Claims F u n d to the general fund of the Treasury a sum equal to the total amount certified to him under this subsection. "(c) Before August 1, 1956, the Secretary of Labor shall estimate and report to the President the total amount which w ill be required to pay all additional benefits payable as a result of the enactment of section 4(c) of this Act. If the President approves the amount so estimated as reasonably accurate, the total amount so estimated and approved shall be certified to the Secretary of the Treasury; if the President does not so approve, he shall determine such amount, and the amount so determined shall be certified to the Secretary of the Treasury. Such certification shall be made on or before September

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