A bill to amend title 38 of the United States Code to provide that certain veterans who were prisoners of war shall be deemed to have a service-connected disability of 50 percent; to deem certain prisoners of war to be permanently and totally disabled for the purposes of receiving wartime disability compensation; to provide hospital care and medical treatment for certain nonservice-connected disabilities of former prisoners of war; to provide a ten year presumptive period of service connection for chronic diseases of certain prisoners of war.

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Provides that any veteran who, while on active duty, was held as a prisoner of war for not less than six months shall be deemed to have a service-connected disability of 50 percent rated as permanent for purposes of entitlement to wartime disability compensation and other veterans' benefits. Provides for a ten-year presumptive period of service connection for chronic diseases of such veterans.

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 13 January 1977

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