Volume 71
Public Law 85–24
To prohibit the payment of pensions to persons confined in penal institutions for periods longer than sixty days.
Approved April 25, 1957
Statutory text
JOINT RESOLUTION
To prohibit the payment of pensions to persons confined in penal institutions for periods longer than sixty days.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That no pension under public or private laws administered by the Veterans’ Administration shall be paid to or for an individual who has been imprisoned in a Federal, State, or local penal institution as the result of conviction of a felony or misdemeanor for any part of the period beginning sixty-one days after his imprisonment begins and ending when his imprisonment ends.
Sec. 2.
Where any veteran is disqualified for pension for any
Veterans’ wives or children.
period solely by reason of the first section of this Act, the Administrator may apportion and pay to his wife or children the pension which such veteran would receive for that period but for this Act.
Where any widow or child of a veteran is disqualified for pension for any period solely by reason of the first section of this Act, the Administrator may (1) if the widow is disqualified, pay to the child, or children, the pension which would be payable if there were no such widow or (2) if a child is disqualified, pay to the widow the pension which would be payable if there were no such child.
Sec. 3.
This Act shall take effect on the first day of the second
Effective date.
calendar month which begins after the date of its enactment.
Approved April 25, 1957.