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PUBLIC LAW 85-56-JUNE 17, 1957

[71 STAT.

EFFECTIVE DATES O F INCREASES

SEC. 911. The effective date of an award of increased compensation, dependency and indemnity compensation, or pension (amending, reopening, or supplementing a previous award, authorizing any payments not previously authorized to the individual involved) shall be fixed in accordance with the facts found, but shall not be earlier than the date of receipt of evidence showing entitlement thereto. EFFECTIVE DATES OF REDUCTIONS A N D D I S C O N T I N U A N C E S

SEC. 912. (a) Except as otherwise specified in this section, the effective date of reduction or discontinuance of compensation, dependency and indemnity compensation, or pension shall be fixed in accordance with the facts found. (b) Where compensation, dependency and indemnity compensation, or pension has been awarded and a reduction or discontinuance is thereafter effected as to rates, such reduction or discontinuance shall be effective the last day of the month in which the reduction or discontinuance is approved. (c) The effective date of a reduction or discontinuance of compensation, dependency and indemnity compensation, or pension— (1) by reason of death, shall be the date of death; (2) by reason of marriage or remarriage, shall be the day before the date of marriage or remarriage; (3) by reason of attaining age eighteen (or twenty-one, as applicable), shall be the day before the eighteenth (or twentyfirst) birthday; (4) by reason of fraud on the part of the beneficiary, or with his knowledge, shall be the effective date of the award; and (5) by reason of receipt of active service pay or retirement pay, shall be the day before the date such pay began. PART C — P A Y M E N T OF BENEFITS P A Y M ENT OF B E N E F I T S BY C H E C K; DELIVERY

SEC. 920. (a) Monetary benefits under laws administered by the Veterans' Administration shall be paid by checks drawn, pursuant to certification by the Administrator, by the Secretary of the Treasury in such form as to protect the United States against loss, and payable by the Secretary of the Treasury, Such checks shall be payable without separate vouchers or receipts except in any case in which the Administrator may consider a voucher necessary for the protection of the Government. Such checks shall be transmitted by mail to the payee thereof at his last-known address, and the envelope or cover thereof may bear an appropriate notice of the prohibition set forth in subsection (b). (b) Postmasters, delivery clerks, letter carriers, and all other postal employees are prohibited from delivering any mail addressed by the United States and containing any such check to any person whomsoever, if he has died or moved, or in the case of a widow, if the postal employee believes that she has remarried (unless the mail is addressed to her in the name she has acquired by her remarriage). The preceding sentence shall apply in the case of checks in payment of benefits other than pension, compensation, dependency and indemnity compensation, and insurance, only insofar as the Administrator deems it necessary to protect the United States against loss. (c) Whenever mail is not delivered because of the prohibition of subsection (b), such mail shall be returned forthwith by the post-

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