Vietnam Prisoners Supplemental Benefits Act

Summary

Vietnam Prisoners Supplemental Benefits Act - States that in determining eligibility for retirement from the Armed Forces and in computing the amount of retired pay, a member or former member of the Armed Forces shall be credited with a period of service equal to any period of time during the Vietnam conflict he was in a missing status, and any such period of time credited under this Act shall be in addition to credit for such period of time allowed for such purposes under any other provision of law. Provides that, in addition to the health benefits otherwise contracted for, the Secretary of Defense shall include within such contracts such insurance, medical services, and health plans, including appropriate psychological and counseling services, as he deems necessary to meet the special needs of former members of the Armed Forces who were in missing status during the Vietnam conflict.

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 26 July 1973

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