Volume 68
Public Law 83–650
To provide benefits under the laws administered by the Veterans’ Administration based upon service in the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps under certain conditions.
Approved August 24, 1954
Statutory text
AN ACT
To provide benefits under the laws administered by the Veterans’ Administration based upon service in the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps under certain conditions.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That any person who
Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps.
Veterans benefits.
served for at least ninety days in the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps who prior to the establishment of the Women’s Army Corps was honorably discharged for disability incurred in line of duty rendering her physically unfit to perform further service in the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps or in the Womens Army Corps, established under Public Law 110, Seventy-eighth Congress, shall be deemed to have
been in the active military service during such period of service for the purposes of laws administered by the Veterans’ Administration. No monetary benefits shall accrue by reason of this Act for any period prior to the date of enactment and compensation or pension shall not be payable by virtue of this Act concurrently with United States employees’ compensation based on the same service. Any person eligible for compensation or pension by reason of this Act who is also eligible for compensation benefits provided by the United States Employees’ Compensation Act of 1917, as amended, shall elect which
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benefit she shall receive.
Approved August 24, 1954.