Volume 80 · 885
Public Law 89–641
To provide for the refund of certain amounts erroneously deducted for National Service Life Insurance premiums from the pay of former members of the organized military forces of the Government of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, and to amend title 38 of the United States Code to provide that certain payments under that title shall be made at a rate in Philippine pesos as is equivalent to $0.50 for each dollar authorized.
Approved October 11, 1966
Statutory text
AN ACT
To provide for the refund of certain amounts erroneously deducted for National Service Life Insurance premiums from the pay of former members of the organized military forces of the Government of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, and to amend title 38 of the United States Code to provide that certain payments under that title shall be made at a rate in Philippine pesos as is equivalent to $0.50 for each dollar authorized.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That, notwithstanding the provisions of any other law or regulation, the Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs is authorized, under such terms and conditions as he may prescribe, to refund amounts erroneously deducted for National Service Life Insurance premiums from the arrears in pay paid by the United States Government to members of the organized military forces of the Government of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, while such forces were in the service of the Armed Forces of the United States pursuant to the military order of the President dated July 26, 1941. Such refund may be made only upon receipt in the Veterans’ Administration of an application therefor filed with the Government of the Commonwealth of the Philippines within two years after the date of enactment of this Act and accompanied by a certification of an appropriate official of that Government that such amounts were so erroneously deducted and have not heretofore been refunded. Such refunds shall be made from the National Service Life Insurance appropriation. In the event of the death of any such member
Recipients, order for payment.
refunds may be made only to the following individuals and in the order named—
to the widow or widower of such person, if living;
if no widow or widower, to the child or children of such person, if living, in equal shares; or
if no widow, widower, child, or children, to the parent or parents of such person, if living, in equal shares.
No refunds under this section shall be paid to the heirs or legal representatives as such of such member or of any beneficiary. If such member is deceased, and in the event no individual within the permitted class survives to receive the refund, no payment of such refund shall be made.
Sec. 2.
The second sentence of subsection (a) and the second sentence of subsection (b) of section 107 of title 38, United States Code, are each amended to read as follows: “Payments under such
chapters shall be made at a rate in pesos as is equivalent to $0.50 for each. dollar authorized, and where annual income is a factor in entitlement to benefits, the dollar limitations in the law specifying such annual income shall apply at a rate in Philippine pesos as is equivalent to $0.50 for each dollar.”
The amendments made by subsection (a) of this section shall
Effective date.
take effect on the first day of the second calendar month which begins after the date of enactment of this Act.
Approved October 11, 1966, 12:25 p.m.