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PUBLIC LAW 87-645-SEPT. 7, 1962

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Public Law 87-645 AN ACT

September 7, 1962

To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide increases in rates of disability compensation, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled.. That (a) section 314 of title 38, United States Code, is amended— (1) by striking out "$19" in subsection (a) and inserting in lieu thereof "$20''; ^ 7 (2) by striking out "$36" in subsection (b) and inserting in lieu thereof "$38'^; . ... (3) by striking out "$55" in subsection (c) and inserting in lieu thereof "$58"; (4) by striking out "$73" in subsection (d) and inserting in lieu the r e o f ' $ 7 7 "; (5) by striking out "$100" in subsection (e) and inserting in lieu thereof';$107"; (6) by striking out "$120" in subsection (f) and inserting in lieu thereof "$128"; (7) by striking out "$140" in subsection (g) and inserting in lieu thereof "$149"; (8) by striking out "$160" in subsection (h) and inserting in lieu thereof "$170"; (9) by striking out "$179" in subsection (i) and inserting in lieu thereof "$191"; (10) by striking out "$225" in subsection (j) and inserting in lieu thereof "$250"; (11) by striking out "$450" in subsections (k), (o), and (p) and inserting in lieu thereof "$525"; (12) by striking out "$309" in subsection (1) and inserting in lieu thereof "$340"; (13) by striking out "$359" in subsection (m) and inserting in lieu thereof'$390"; (14) by striking out "$401" in subsection (n) and inserting in lieu thereof ' $440"; (15) by striking out "$150" in subsection (r) and inserting in lieu thereof "$200"; and (16) by striking out "$265" in subsection (s) and inserting in lieu thereof "$290". (b) The Administrator may adjust administratively, consistent with the increases authorized by this section, the rates of disability compensation payable to persons within the purview of section 10 of Public Law 85-857 who are not in receipt of compensation pursuant to chapter 11 of title 38, United States Code. SEC. 2. (a) Subsection (r) of section 314 of title 38, United States Code, is further amended by striking out "for all periods during which he is not hospitalized at Government expense" and inserting in lieu thereof the following: ", subject to the limitations of section 3203(f) of this title." (b) Section 3203 of title 38, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following: "(f) Where any veteran in receipt of ^n aid and attendance allowance described in section 314(r) of this title is hospitalized at Government expense, such allowance shall be discontinued from the first day of the second calendar month which begins after the date of his admission for such hospitalization for so long as such hospitalization continues. I n case a veteran covered by this subsection leaves a hos-

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veterans, penlruon.V-""" crease. 2 Stat. 1120. ^

72 Stat. 936. 74stat. 528. Rate adjust'"*"*^72 Stat. 1263. lo^i^ofe^s.^'**'" 72 Stat. 936.

Hospitalized ^*7rsut. 123s; 73 Stat. 435.

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