Volume 60
Public Law 79–545
To clarify the terms “compensation” and “pension” under laws administered by the Veterans’ Administration.
Approved July 9, 1946
Statutory text
AN ACT
To clarify the terms “compensation” and “pension” under laws administered by the Veterans’ Administration.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That under laws administered by the Veterans’ Administration monetary benefits, other than retirement pay, for service-connected disability or death shall be designated “compensation”, and not “pension”.
Sec. 2.
Section 33 of Public Law Numbered 141, Seventy-third Congress, is hereby repealed.
Approved July 9, 1946.