An Act to amend title 38 so as to authorize the Administrator to assign a total rating for compensation to a veteran granted service-connection for blindness of one eye who subsequent to separation from active duty incurs blindness in the remaining eye
PL 87-610 (H.R.3728), enacted 08/28/1962

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PUBLIC LAW 87-610-AUG. 28, 1962 
[76 STAT. 
August 28, 1962 
[H. R. 3728] 
Public Law 87-610 
T0e-T: 
AN ACT 
To amend chapter 11 of title 38, United States Code, to authorize special con-
sideration for certain disabled veterans suffering blindness or bilateral kidney 
involvement. 
Disabled veter-
ans. 
72 Stat. 1124; 
74 Stat. 195. 
38 u s e 351-359. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That subchapter VI 
of chapter 11 of title 38, United States Code, is amended by adding at 
the end thereof the following new section: 
*'§360. Special consideration for certain cases of blindness or 
bilateral kidney involvement 
"Where any veteran has suffered (1) blindness in one eye as a resiilt 
of service-connected disability and has suffered blindness in the other 
eye as a result of non-service-connected disability not the result of his 
own willful misconduct, or (2) has suffered the loss or loss of use of 
one kidney as a result of service-connected disability, and has suffered 
severe involvement of the other kidney such as to cause total disability, 
as a result of non-service-connected disability not the result of his 
own willful misconduct, the Administrator shall assign and pay to 
the veteran concerned the applicable rate of compensation under this 
chapter as if his blindness in both eyes or such bilateral kidney 
involvement were the result of service-connected disability." 
SEC. 2. The analysis of chapter 11 of title 38, United States Code, 
is amended by adding at the end thereof the following: 
"360. Special consideration for certain cases of blindness or bilateral kidney 
involvement." 
Approved August 28, 1962. 
tl, 
Public Law 87-611 
r^ f<ki r 
August 28, 1962 
[H. R. 8564] 
Federal Employ-
ees' Group Life 
Insurance Act of 
1954, amendment. 
68 Stat 738. 
Insurance 
amounts, escheat. 
5 u s e 2096. 
69 Stat. 676. 
Effective date;. 
AN ACT 
To amend the Federal Employees' Group Life Insurance Act of 1954 to provide 
for escheat of amounts of insurance to the insurance fund under such Act in 
' 
the absence of any claim for payment, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 4 of the-
Federal Employees' Group Life Insurance Act of 1954, as amended 
(5 U.S.C. 2093), is amended by adding at the end thereof the following 
new paragraph: 
"If, within two years after the death of the employee, no claim for 
payment has been filed by any person entitled under the order of 
precedence set forth in this section, and neither the Commission nor 
the Administrative office established by the insurance company OP 
companies pursuant to subsection (b) of section 7 of this Act ha^ 
received any notice that any such claim will be made, payment may 
be made to a claimant as may in the judgment of the Commission be 
equitably entitled thereto, and such payment shall be a bar to recovery 
by any other person. 
If, within four years after the death of the 
employee, payment has not been made pursuant to this section and 
no claim for payment by any person entitled under this section is 
pending, the amount payable shall escheat to the credit of the fund 
created pursuant to subsection (c) of section 5 of this Act." 
SEC. 2. The amendment made by the first section of this Act shall 
take effect as of August 29,1954. 
Approved August 28, 1962.