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 PUBLIC LAW 95-588—NOV. 4, 1978

92 STAT. 2497

Public Law 95-588 95th Congress An Act To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide improvements in the pension program for certain veterans of a period of war with non-service-connected disabilities, for certain surviving spouses of veterans of a period of war, and for certain surviving children of veterans of a period of war, to increase the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for surviving parents of certain veterans, to provide for automatic annual cost-of-living adjustments in the rates of pension and in the rates of parents' dependency and indemnity compensation, to prevent reductions in and terminations of pension and terminations of parents' dependency and indemnity compensation solely attributable to cost-of-living increases in social security benefits, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Veterans' and Survivors' Pension Improvement Act of 1978". TITLE I—PENSION FOR VETERANS AND SURVIVORS DEFINITION OF "PERIOD OF W A R "

SEC. 101. Section 501 of title 38, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new paragraph: "(4) The term 'period of war' means the Mexican border period. World War I, World War II, the Korean conflict, the Vietnam era, and the period beginning on the date of any future declaration of war by the Congress and ending on the date prescribed by Presidential proclamation or concurrent resolution of the Congress.". INCOME EXCLUSIONS

SEC. 102. (a) Subsection (a) of section 503 of title 38, United States Code, is amended by— (1) striking out clause (1); (2) redesignating clause (2) as clause (1); (3) redesignating clause (3) as clause (2) and striking out the comma and "and chapters 11 and 13 (except section 412(a)) of this title" in such clause; (4) striking out clauses (4), (5), and (6); (5) redesignating clause (7) as clause (3); (6) inserting after such clause the following new clause: " (4) amounts equal to amounts paid— "(A) by a veteran for the last illness and burial of such veteran's deceased spouse or child, or "(B) by the spouse of a living veteran or the surviving spouse of a deceased veteran for the last illness and burial of a child of such veteran;"; (7) redesignating clause (8) as clause (5); (8) striking out clause (9); (9) redesignating clause (10) as clause (6); (10) striking out clauses (11), (12), (13), and (14); (11) redesignating clause (15) as clause (7);

Nov. 4, 1978 [H.R. 10173]

Veterans' and Survivors' Pension Improvement Act of 1978. 38 USC 101 note.

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