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S. 859 (98th)
A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to require the continued payment of disability compensation at an unreduced rate pending review and appeal of a determination to reduce or discontinue such compensation by reason of a change in service-connected or employability status or in physical condition in the case of any veteran whose disability has been rated as total for a period of at least ten years ending on the date such determination was made, who files a statement of disagreement with such determination, and who requests such continued payment, and for other purposes.
Introduced
18 March 1983
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Status
Committee on Veterans. Provisions of measure incorporated into measure S. 1388 ordered to be reported.
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Summary
Prohibits the reduction of a rating of permanent total disability which has been continuously in force for ten years until a decision making such a reduction is final.
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summary · EN · 18 March 1983
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- Official source: https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/859
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