An Act to amend section 3104 of title 38, United States Code, to prohibit the furnishing of benefits under laws administered by the Veterans Administration to any child on account of the death of more than one parent in the same parental line
PL 86-495 (H.R.9788), enacted 06/08/1960

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PUBLIC LAW 8 6 - 4 9 5 - J U N E 8, 1960 
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SEC. 2. Notwithstanding the repeal of the National Service Life 
fj^at! loos. 
Insurance Act of 1940, claims for insurance granted by virtue of the 
foregoing section shall be adjudicated under the provisions of that 
Act, subject to the following conditions: 
conditions. 
(a) The insurance shall be payable effective from the date of enact-
ment of this Act in equal monthly installments for one hundred and 
twenty months certain with such payments continuing during the re-
maining lifetime of the first beneficiary to the following beneficiaries 
and in the order named— 
(1) to the widow or widower of the insured, if living, and while 
unremarried; 
(2) if no widow or widower entitled thereto, to the child or 
children of the insured, if living, in equal shares; 
(3) if no widow or widower entitled thereto, or child, to the 
dependent mother or father of the insured, if living, in equal 
shares. 
(b) Anv installment of such insurance not paid to a beneficiary dur-
ing his liietime shall be paid to the beneficiary or beneficiaries within 
the permitted class next entitled to priority and no payment of such 
insurance shall be made to the estate of any deceased person. 
(c) No application for insurance payment under this Act shall be 
valid unless filed in the Veterans' Administration within two years 
from the effective date of this Act and the relationship and dependency 
of the applicant where required as a basis for such claim, shall be 
proved as of the date of death of the insured by evidence satisfactory 
to the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs. Persons shown by evi-
dence satisfactory to the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to have 
been mentally or legally incompetent at the time the right to apply 
for death benefits expires, may make such application at any time 
within one year after the removal of such disability. 
(d) The cost of the life insurance benefits granted under this Act 
shall be borne by the United States and the benefit payments there-
under shall be made from the national service life insurance 
appropriation. 
Approved June 8, 1960. 
Public Law 86-495 ' 
AN ACT 
Jxine 8, 1960 
To amend section 3104 of title 38, United States Code, to prohibit the furnishing 
[H. R. 9788] 
of benefits under laws administered by the Veterans' Administration to any 
child on account of the death of more than one parent in the same parental 
line. 
Be it enacted &y the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress a^sembled^ That section 3104 veterans, 
(b) (2) of title 38, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: ml*^^*^"'' """'" 
" (2) Benefits other than insurance under laws administered by the 
Veterans' Administration may not be paid or furnished to or on 
account of any child by reason of the death of more than one parent in 
the same parental line; however, the child may elect one or more times 
to receive benefits by reason of the death of any one of such parents." 
SEO. 2. The amendment made by this Act shall apply only to cases 
where the death of a parent occurs after the date of enactment of this 
Act. 
Approved June 8, 1960. 
72 Stat. 1230.