Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 72 Part 1.djvu/1266

 1224

PUBLIC LAW 85-857-SEPT. 2, 1958

[72 S T A T.

has been received and approved. No member of the Armed Forces shall receive mustering-out payment under this chapter more than once, and such payment shall accrue and the amount thereof shall be computed as of the time of discharge for the purpose of effecting a permanent separation from the service or of ultimate relief from active service or, at the option of such member, for the purpose of enlistment, reenlistment, or appointment in a regular component of the Armed Forces. § 2105. Administration of chapter (a) Mustering-out payments due or to become due under this chapter shall not be assignable and any payments made to or on account of a veteran under this chapter shall be exempt from taxation, shall be exempt from the claims of creditors, including any claim of the United States, and shall not be subject to attachment, levy, or seizure by or under any legal or equitable process whatever either before or after receipt by the payee. (b) The Secretaries of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Treasury may make such regulations not inconsistent with this chapter as may be necessary effectively to carry out the provisions thereof, and their decisions shall be final and not subject to review by any court or other Government official, (c) The Secretaries of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Treasury, or such subordinate officers as they may designate, are authorized to make direct payment to survivors over seventeen years of age, and to select a proper person or persons to whom mustering-out payments may be made for the use and benefit of former active members of the Armed Forces, or survivors thereof, as defined by section 2103 of this title, without the necessity of appointment by judicial proceedings of a legal representative of any such former member or such survivors when, in the opinion of the respective Secretaries or their designees, the interests of persons under seventeen years of age so justify, or where the former active member or his survivors is suffering from a mental disability sufficient to make direct payment not in the best interests of such person or persons. Payments made under the provisions of this subsection shall constitute a complete discharge of the obligation of the United States as provided in this chapter; and the selection of a proper person or persons, as provided in this subsection, and the correctness of the amount due and paid to such person or persons shall have the same finality as that accorded decisions made pursuant to subsection (b). The provisions of this subsection shall not apply where a legal guardian or committee has been judicially appointed, except as to any payments made under this subsection before the receipt of notice of appointment. (d) No person entitled to mustering-out payment under this chapter 38 USC ion- shall be eligible for. such payment under title V of the Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act of 1952.

PART IV—GENERAL ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS CHAPTER

51. 53. 55. 57. 59. 61.

Applications, Effective Dates, and Payments Special Provisions Relating to Benefits Minors, Incompetents, and Other Wards Records and Investigations Agents and Attorneys Penal and Forfeiture Provisions

Sec.

3001 3101 3201 3301 3401 3501

�