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P U B L I C LAW 881-AUG. 1, 1956

Army or Air Force under call or conscription. The term includes—" (1) a retired member of any of those services; "(2) a member of the Fleet Keserve or Fleet Marine Corps Reserve; "(3) a cadet at the United States Military Academy, a midshipman at the United States Naval Academy, and a cadet at the United States Coast Guard Academy or United States Air Force Academy; "(4) a member of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, the Naval Reserve Officers' Training Corps, or the Air Force Reserve Officers' Training Corps, when ordered to annual training duty for fourteen days or more, and while performing authorized travel to and from that duty; and "(5) any person while en route to or from, or at, a place for final acceptance or for entry upon active duty in the military or naval service— " (A) who has been provisionally accepted for such duty; or " (B) who, under the Universal Military Training and Service Act, has been selected for active military or naval service; and has been ordered or directed to proceed to such place. The term does not include a temporary member of the Coast Guard Reserve." (b)The first sentence of section 205(p)(1) of such Act is amended by inserting "including service, performed as a member of a uniformed service, to which the provisions of subsection (m)(1) of such section are applicable," immediately after "in the employ of any instrumentality which is wholly owned by the United States,".

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^2 USC 405.

LUMP-SUM DEATH PAYMENTS FOR REINTERMENT OF DECEASED VETERANS

SEC. 403. (a) The fourth sentence of section 202(i) of the Social Security Act is amended to read as follows: " I n the case of any individual who died outside the forty-eight States and the District of Columbia after December 1953 and before January 1, 1957, whose death occurred while he was in the active military or naval service of the United States, and who is returned to any of such States, the District of Columbia, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, or the Virgin Islands for interment or reinterment, the provisions of the preceding sentence shall not prevent payment to any person under the second sentence of this subsection if application for a lump-sum death payment with respect to such deceased individual is filed by or on behalf of such person (whether or not legally competent) prior to the expiration of two years after the date of such interment or reinterment. In the case of any individual who died outside the forty-eight States and the District of Columbia after December 1956 while he was performing service, as a member of a uniformed service, to which the provisions of section 210(m)(1) are applicable, and who is returned to any of such States, or the District of Columbia, or to any Territory or possession of the United States, for interment or reinterment, the provisions of the third sentence of this subsection shall not prevent payment to any person under the second sentence of this subsection if application for a lump-sum death payment with respect to such deceased individual is filed by or on behalf of such person (whether or not legally competent) prior to the expiration of two years after the date of such interment or reinterment." (b) The amendment made by subsection (a) shall be effective as though it had been enacted on March 31, 1956.

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