Volume 68
Public Law 83–467
To restore eligibility of certain citizens or subjects Germany or Japan to receive benefits under veterans’ laws.
Approved July 1, 1954
Statutory text
AN ACT
To restore eligibility of certain citizens or subjects Germany or Japan to receive benefits under veterans’ laws.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That any person who, but for the last proviso of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the payment of pension or other benefits withheld from persons for the period they were residing in countries occupied by enemy forces in World War II”, approved August 7, 1946 (Public Law 622, Seventy-ninth Congress), would be entitled to compensation or pension benefits
payable under laws administered by the Veterans’ Administration shall be entitled to such benefits from the date of enactment of this Act, if claim therefor is filed within one year after such date, or from the date of claim, if claim therefor is filed more than one year after such date.
Approved July 1, 1954.