Volume 49
Public Law 74–382
To amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes”, approved September 7, 1916, and Acts in amendment thereof.
Approved May 13, 1936
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes”, approved September 7, 1916, and Acts in amendment thereof.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 6 of the Act entitled “An Act to provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes”, approved September 7, 1916, and Acts in amendment thereof (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 756), is amended by the addition of the following paragraph:
Employees’ Compensation Commission.
Allowance for attendant for totally disabled employee, authorized.
“In addition to the monthly compensation the Employees’ Compensation Commission may pay an injured employee awarded compensation for permanent total disability from injury an additional sum of not more than $50 a month, as the Commission may deem necessary, when the Commission shall find that the service of an attendant is necessary constantly to be used by reason of the employee being totally blind, or having lost both hands or both feet or the use thereof, or is paralyzed and unable to walk, or by reason of other total disability actually rendering him so helpless as to require constant attendance.”
Approved, May 13, 1936.