Volume 75
Public Law 87–102
To extend the provisions for benefits based on limited periods immediately following discharge from active duty after December 31, 1956, to veterans discharged before that date.
Approved July 21, 1961
Statutory text
AN ACT
To extend the provisions for benefits based on limited periods immediately following discharge from active duty after December 31, 1956, to veterans discharged before that date.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 106(c)
Veterans, Benefits following discharge.
of title 38, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:
“(c) For the purposes of this title, an individual discharged or released from a period of active duty shall be deemed to have continued on active duty during the period of time immediately following the date of such discharge or release from such duty determined by the Secretary concerned to have been required for him to proceed to his home by the most direct route, and in any event he shall be deemed to have continued on active duty until midnight of the date of such discharge or release.”
Sec. 2.
No monetary benefits shall accrue by reason of the amendments made by this Act for any period prior to the date of enactment.
Approved July 21, 1961.