An Act to provide certain increases in the monthly rates of compensation and pension payable to veterans and their dependents, and for other purposes
PL 82-356 (H.R.4394), enacted 05/23/1952

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PUBLIC LAW 356-MAY 23, 1952 
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Public Law 356 
CHAPTER 323 
May 23, 1952 
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[H.R.4394J 
rp^j provide certain increases in the monthly rates of compensation and pension 
payable to veterans and their dependents, and for other purposes. 
Veterems. 
C o m p e n s ation 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That all monthly 
and pensions. 
rates of Compensation payable under laws administered by the Vet-
erans' Administration for disability rated 10 per centum to 49 per 
centum are hereby increased by 5 per centum, and for disability rated 
50 per centum to 100 per centum are hereby increased by 15 per centum: 
Provided^ That such increases shall not apply to special awards and 
allowances, dependency allowances, or subsistence allowances. 
SEC. 2. (a) Paragraph I (f), part III, A^eterans Regulation 
ch^^2'^^'*°**'°"" Numbered 1 (a), as amended, is hereby amended to read as follows: 
"(f) The amount of pension payable under the terms of part I I I 
shall be $63 monthly, except— 
"(1) that where an otherwise eligible person shall have been 
rated permanent and total and in receipt of pension for a con-
tinuous period of ten years or reaches the age of sixty-five years, 
the amount of pension shall be $75 monthly; and 
"(2) that Avhere an otherwise eligible person is or hereafter 
becomes, on account of age or physical or mental disabilities, 
helpless or blind or so nearly helpless or blind as to need or require 
the regular aid and attendance of another person, the amount of 
pension shall be $129 monthly." 
(b) The provisions of subsection (a) of this section shall apply to 
veterans of both World War I and World War II. 
SEC. 3. Paragraph IV of part I of Veterans Regulation Numbered 
ch^iif^ "°**'°"' ^ (a), as amended, is hereby amended to read as follows: 
"IV. The surviving widow, child or children, and dependent mother 
or father of any deceased person who died as the result of injury or 
disease incurred in or aggravated by active military or naval service 
as provided in part I, paragraph I, hereof, shall be entitled to receive 
compensation at the monthly rates specified next below. 
"Widow but no child, $75; widow with one child, $121 (with $29 
for each additional child) ; no widow but one child, $67; no widow but 
two children, $94 (equally divided); no widow but three children, $122 
(equally divided) (with $23 for each additional child; total amount 
to be equally divided) ; dependent mother or father, $60 (or both), 
$35 each." 
SEC. 4. Section 2 of Public Law Numbered 484, Seventy-third Con-
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gress, as amended, is hereby amended to read as follows: 
"SEC. 2. That the monthly rates of pension shall be as follows: 
Widow but no child, $48; widow and one child, $60 (with $7.20 for 
each additional child) ; no widow but one child, $26; no widow but 
two children, $39 (equally divided) ; no widow but three children, 
$52 (equally divided) with $7.20 for each additional child (the total 
amount to be equally divided)." 
SEC. 5. (a) All monthly rates of pension payable to veterans of the 
Spanish-American War, including the Boxer Rebellion and the Philip-
pine Insurrection, and dependents of such veterans which are payable 
under laws reenacted by the Act of August 13, 1935 (49 Stat. 614; 38 
U. S. C. 368, 369), or under Acts amendatory or supplemental to such 
laws, are hereby increased by 71/2 P^r centum. 
(b) All monthly rates of pension payable to veterans of the Civil 
War and dependents of such veterans which are payable under any 
public laws administered by the Veterans' Administration are hereby 
increased by 7^2 per centum. 
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SEC. 6. (a) The minimum monthly rate of pension payable to 
veterans of the Indian wars under the Act of March 3, 1927 (44 Stat. 
1861), as amended (38 IT. S. C. 381), or the Act of August 25, 1937 
(50 Stat. 786), as amended (38 U. S. C. 381-1), shall be $96.75 unless 
such veteran is now or hereafter becomes on account of age or physical 
or mental disabilities, helpless or blind, or so nearly helpless or blind 
as to need or require the regular aid and attendance of another person, 
in which event the monthly rate shall be $129. 
(b) All monthly rates of pension payable to dependents of veterans 
of the Indian wars which are payable under any public laws admin-
istered by the Veterans' Administration are hereby increased by 7i/^ 
per centum. 
SEC. 7. The increased rates authorized by this Act shall be effective 
from the first day of the second calendar month following the date of 
approval of this Act. 
Approved May 23, 1952, 
Effective date. 
Public Law 357 
CHAPTER 324 
AN ACT 
To increase the annual income limitations governing the payment of pension to 
certain veterans and their dependents. 
May 23, 1952 
[H.Rr4387] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and Houne of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That paragraph I I 
(a), part III, Veterans Regulation Numbered 1 (a), as amended, is 
liereby amended to read as follows: 
"II. (a) Payment of pension provided by part III shall not be made 
to any unmarried person whose annual income exceeds $1,400 or to any 
married person or any person with minor children whose annual 
income exceeds $2,700." 
SEC. 2. The first sentence of section 1 (c) of the Act of June 28,1934, 
as added by section 1 of the Act of July 19, 1939 (53 Stat. 1068), and 
ap amended (38 U. S. C. 503 (c)), is further amended to read as 
follows: "Payment of pension under the provisions of this Act shall 
not be made to any widow without child, or to a child, whose annual 
income exceeds $1,400, or to a widow with a child or children whose 
annual income exceeds $2,700." 
SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect on the first day of the second 
calendar month after its enactment. Pension shall.not be paid for any 
period prior to the effective date of this Act to any person whose 
eligibility for pension is established solely by virtue of this Act. 
Approved May 23, 1952, 
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tions. 
Effective date. 
Public Law 358 
CHAPTER 325 
AN ACT 
To provide for the acquisition of a site for the new Federal building in Newnan, 
Georgia, adjoining the existing Federal building there as an economy measure 
before land value has increased as a result of land improvement. 
May 23, 1952 
[ H . R ; 4 S 5 1 ] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the General 
Services Administrator be authorized and directed to acquire, by 
purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, a plot of land one hundred and 
forty-five feet long and eighty-eight feet wide situated at the south-
west corner of Spring Street and Perry Street, and immediately east 
Newnan, Ga. 
Ac q u i s ition of 
land.