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PUBLIC LAW 87-610-AUG. 28, 1962 Public Law 87-610

August 28, 1962 [H. R. 3728]

Disabled veterans. 72 Stat. 1124; 74 Stat. 195. 38 USC 351-359.

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AN ACT To amend chapter 11 of title 38, United States Code, to authorize special consideration for certain disabled veterans suffering blindness or bilateral kidney involvement.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That subchapter VI of chapter 11 of title 38, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new section: bilateral kidney involvement "Where any veteran has suffered (1) blindness in one eye as a resiilt of service-connected disability and has suffered blindness in the other eye as a result of non-service-connected disability not the result of his own willful misconduct, or (2) has suffered the loss or loss of use of one kidney as a result of service-connected disability, and has suffered severe involvement of the other kidney such as to cause total disability, as a result of non-service-connected disability not the result of his own willful misconduct, the Administrator shall assign and pay to the veteran concerned the applicable rate of compensation under this chapter as if his blindness in both eyes or such bilateral kidney involvement were the result of service-connected disability." SEC. 2. The analysis of chapter 11 of title 38, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following: "360. Special consideration for certain cases of blindness or bilateral kidney involvement."
 * '§360. Special consideration for certain cases of blindness or

Approved August 28, 1962. tl, Public Law 87-611 August 28, 1962 [H. R. 8564]

Federal Employe e s ' Group Life Insurance Act of 1954, amendment. 68 Stat 738. Insurance amounts, escheat.

5 USC 2096.

69 Stat. 676. Effective date;.

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AN ACT To amend the Federal Employees' Group Life Insurance Act of 1954 to provide for escheat of amounts of insurance to the insurance fund under such Act in ' the absence of any claim for payment, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 4 of theFederal Employees' Group Life Insurance Act of 1954, as amended (5 U.S.C. 2093), is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new paragraph: "If, within two years after the death of the employee, no claim for payment has been filed by any person entitled under the order of precedence set forth in this section, and neither the Commission nor the Administrative office established by the insurance company OP companies pursuant to subsection (b) of section 7 of this Act ha^ received any notice that any such claim will be made, payment may be made to a claimant as may in the judgment of the Commission be equitably entitled thereto, and such payment shall be a bar to recovery by any other person. If, within four years after the death of the employee, payment has not been made pursuant to this section and no claim for payment by any person entitled under this section is pending, the amount payable shall escheat to the credit of the fund created pursuant to subsection (c) of section 5 of this Act." SEC. 2. The amendment made by the first section of this Act shall take effect as of August 29, 1954. Approved August 28, 1962.

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