A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to reduce from 10 years to five years the period of continuous total service-connected disability of a veteran immediately preceding death required for purposes of entitlement of the veteran's surviving spouse to so-called presumptive dependency and indemnity compensation.

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Amends Federal veterans' benefits provisions to reduce from ten to five years the period of continuous total service-connected disability of a veteran immediately preceding death required in order to entitle such veteran's surviving spouse to the continuation of dependency and indemnity compensation benefit payments.

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 5 August 1987

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