A bill to amend title 38 of the United States Code to authorize a presumption of service connection for cause of death in certain cases involving veterans who had been rated permanently and totally disabled due to service-connected disability for at least 1 year immediately preceding death.

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Authorizes a presumption of service connection for cause of death for the purposes of payment of dependency and indemnity compensation in the case of a veteran who had a service-connected disability rated permanent and total for at least one year immediately preceding death, if death was due to natural causes not the result of misconduct on the part of such veteran.

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 13 January 1977

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