PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 331 -JULY 19, 1939
Hospitalization and
domiciliary care pro-
visions.
Rates of death com-
pensation.
Condition.
Effective date of
awards.
50 Stat. 661.
38U.S.C.,
Supp.
IV, I 472d.
48 Stat. 8.
38U.S.C.ch.12;
Supp. IV, ch. 12.
48 Stat. 8.
38U.S.C.ch.12;
Supp. IV, ch. 12 .
Compensation f or
certain specific condi-
tions.
Interest rate on
loans.
SEC. 4. In the administration of laws pertaining to veterans,
retired officers, and enlisted men of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps,
and Coast Guard, who served honorably during a war period as
recognized by the Veterans' Administration, shall be, and are,
entitled to hospitalization and domiciliary care in Veterans' Admin-
istration facilities on parity with other war veterans and subject to
those provisions of paragraph VI (A) of Veterans Regulation
Numbered 6 (c), which provide for reduction of monetary benefits
to veterans having neither wife, child, nor dependent parent while
being furnished hospital treatment, institutional, or domiciliary care.
SEC. 5. Effective on the 1st day of the month next following the
. date of enactment of this Act, the rates of death compensation pay-
able under the provisions of existing laws or veterans regulations to
a surviving widow, child, or children, and/or dependent mother or
father now on the rolls or hereafter to be placed on the rolls as the
surviving widow, child, or children, and/or dependent mother or
father of any World War veteran who died as the result of injury
or disease incurred in or aggravated by active military or naval
service in the World War, shall be as follows:
Widow, age under fifty years, $38; widow, age fifty years or over,
$45; widow with one child, $10 additional for such child up to ten
years of age, increased to $15 from age ten (with $8 for each addi-
tional child up to ten years of age, increased to $13 from age ten)
(subject to apportionment regulations); no widow but one child,
$20; no widow but two children, $33 (equally divided); no widow
but three children, $46 (equally divided) (with $8 for each additional
child, total amount to be equally divided); dependent mother or
father, $45 (or both) $25 each. As to the widow, child, or children,
the total compensation payable under this section shall not exceed
$83. The amount of compensation herein authorized shall be paid
in the event the monthly payment of compensation under Veterans
Regulation Numbered 1 (g) and the monthly payment of yearly
renewable term or automatic insurance does not aggregate or exceed
the amount of compensation herein authorized.
As to the surviving widow, child, or children, and/or dependent
mother or father on the rolls on the date of enactment of this Act,
any increased award herein authorized shall be effective from the
date of enactment of this Act and in all other cases, except as pro-
vided in section 6 of Public Law Numbered 304, Seventy-fifth Con-
gress, approved August 16, 1937, effective dates of awards shall be
governed by the provisions of veterans regulations promulgated under
Public Law Numbered 2, Seventy-third Congress, March 20, 1933.
SEC. 6 . Subparagraph (k) of paragraph II, part I, of Veterans
Regulation Numbered 1 (a), promulgated under Public Law Num-
bered 2, Seventy-third Congress, March 20, 1933, is hereby amended to
read as follows:
"(k) If the disabled person, as the result of service-incurred dis-
ability, has suffered the anatomical loss or the loss of the use of only
one foot, or one hand, or one eye, the rate of pension provided in
part I, paragraph II (a) to (j), shall be increased by $35 per month."
SEC. 7 . On and after the date of enactment of this Act, the rate
of interest charged on any loan secured by a lien on United States
Government life (converted) insurance shall not exceed 5 per centum
per annum.
Approved, July 19, 1939.
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