Volume 72
Public Law 85–655
To extend certain veterans’ benefits to or on behalf of dependent husbands and widowers of female veterans.
Approved August 14, 1958
Statutory text
AN ACT
To extend certain veterans’ benefits to or on behalf of dependent husbands and widowers of female veterans.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That title I of the
Veterans.
Veterans’ Benefits Act of 1957 is amended by adding at the end thereof the following:
For the purposes of all laws administered by the Veterans’ Administration, (1) the term ‘wife’ includes the husband of any female veteran if such husband is incapable of self-maintenance and is permanently incapable of self-support due to physical or mental disability, and (2) the term ‘widow’ includes the widower of any female veteran if such widower is incapable of self-maintenance and was permanently incapable of self-support due to physical or mental disability at the time of the veteran’s death.”
Sec. 2.
The table of contents in the first section of the Veterans’
Benefits Act of 1957 is amended by inserting immediately below
the following:
Approved August 14, 1958.