An Act to amend section 715 of title 38, United States Code, to authorize issuance of total disability income provisions to national service life insurance policies through age 35, under certain conditions
PL 88-355 (H.R.6920), enacted 07/07/1964

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PUBLIC LAW 88-355-JULY 7, 1964 
I78 STAT. 
66 Stat. 661. 
Termination. 
Appropriation. 
of the General Services Administration for the collection of indebted-
ness of personnel resulting from erroneous payments (5 U.S.C. 46c) 
shall apply to the collection of erroneous payments made to or on 
behalf of a Commission employee, and regulations of said Admin-
istrator for the administrative control of funds (31 U.S.C. 665(g)) 
shall .apply to appropriations of the Commission: Provided 
further, 
That the Commission shall not be required to prescribe such 
regulations. 
(e) Ninety days after submission of its final report, as provided in 
section 4(b), the Commission shall cease to exist. 
SEC. Y. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is hereby author-
ized to be appropriated such sums not in excess of $1,500,000 as 
may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this joint resolution. 
Any money appropriated pursuant hereto shall remain available to 
the Commission until the date of its expiration, as fixed by section 6 (e). 
Approved July 3, 1964. 
July 7, 1964 
[H. R. 6920] 
Public Law 88-355 
AN ACT 
To amend section 71.T of title 38. United States Code, to authorize, under certain 
conditions, the issuance of total disability income provisions for inclusion in 
National Service Life Insurance policies to provide coverage to age sixty-five. 
Veterans. 
Disability in-
come insurance 
provisions. 
72 Stat. 1151. 
65 Stat. 36. 
60 Stat. 786. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That, effective Jan-
uary 1,1965, section 715 of title 38, United States Code, is amended to 
read as follows: 
"The Administrator shall, except as hereinafter provided, upon 
application by the insured and proof of good health satisfactory to the 
Administrator and payment of such extra premium as the Adminis-
trator shall prescribe, include in any National Service Life Insurance 
policy on the life of the insured (except a policy issued under section 
620 of the National Service Life Insurance Act of 1940, or section 722 
of this title) provisions whereby an insured who is shown to have 
become totally disabled for a period of six consecutive months or more 
commencing after the date of such application and before attaining 
the age of sixty-five and while the payment of any premium is not in 
default, shall be paid monthly disability benefits from the first day of 
the seventh consecutive month of and during the continuance of such 
total disability of $10 for each $1,000 of such insurance in effect when 
such benefits become payable. The total disability provision author-
ized under this section shall not be issued unless application therefor 
is made either prior to the insured's fifty-fifth birthday, or before the 
insured's sixtieth birthday and prior to January 1, 1966. The total 
disability provision authorized under this section shall not be added to 
a policy containing the total disability coverage heretofore issued 
under section 602(v) of the National Service Life Insurance Act of 
1940, or the provisions of this section as in effect before January 1, 
1965, except upon surrender of such total disability coverage, proof of 
good health, if required, satisfactory to the Administrator, and pay-
ment of such extra premium as the Administrator shall determine is 
required in such cases. Participating policies containing additional 
provisions for the payment of disability benefits may be separately 
classified for the purpose of dividend distribution from otherwise 
similar policies not containing such benefits." 
Approved July 7, 1964.