Volume 68
Public Law 83–698
To increase by 5 per centum the rates of pension payable to veterans and their dependents.
Approved August 28, 1954
Statutory text
AN ACT
To increase by 5 per centum the rates of pension payable to veterans and their dependents.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That
all monthly rates of pension for disability, age, or death payable to veterans or their dependents under any public law administered by the Veterans’ Administration are hereby increased by 5 per centum, subject to the provisions of subsection (b) of this section.
Subsection (a) shall not apply to pension payable under sections 4756 or 4757 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (38 U. S. C. 229, 230), the Act of April 27, 1916 (39 Stat. 53), as amended (38 U. S. C. 391 and the following), or the Act of February 28, 1929 (45 Stat. 1409).
Sec. 2.
This Act shall take effect on the first day of the second
Effective date.
calendar month following the date of its enactment.
Approved August 28, 1954.