Volume 78
Public Law 88–445
To amend title 38 of the United States Code in order to provide that a disability which has been rated at or above a certain percentage for twenty or more years may not thereafter be reduced below such percentage.
Approved August 19, 1964
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend title 38 of the United States Code in order to provide that a disability which has been rated at or above a certain percentage for twenty or more years may not thereafter be reduced below such percentage.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America In Congress assembled,
That
section 110 of title 38, United States Code, is amended by inserting immediately after the first sentence thereof the following new sentence: “A disability which has been continuously rated at or above any percentage for twenty or more years for compensation purposes under laws administered by the Veterans’ Administration shall not thereafter be rated at less than such percentage, except upon a showing that such rating was based on fraud.”
The side heading of such section 110 is amended by striking nut “total”.
The table of sections of chapter 1 of title 38, United States Code, is amended by striking out “Preservation of total” and inserting in lieu thereof “Preservation of”.
Approved August 19, 1964.