Volume 89 · 1022
Public Law 94–170
To increase the amount of benefits payable to widows of certain former employees of the Lighthouse Service.
Approved December 23, 1975
Statutory text
An Act
To increase the amount of benefits payable to widows of certain former employees of the Lighthouse Service.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the benefits payable under section 1 or section 2 of the Act of August 19, 1950 (64 Stat. 465, 466), as amended (33 U.S.C. 771, 772) shall, effective on the first day of the calendar month following enactment of this Act, be increased by $26 per month.
Sec. 2.
The increases under this Act shall apply to benefits which commence before, on, or after the date of enactment of this Act, but no increase in benefits shall be paid for any period prior to the date of enactment of this Act, or the date on which the eligibility for benefits commences, whichever is later.
Approved December 23, 1975.