HR 5951 · 96th Congress · Armed Forces and National Security
A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to provide an incentive for severely disabled veterans entitled to an aid and attendance allowance for non-service-connected disabilities to live outside of an institutional setting.
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Senate5
EnactedLatest: Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.(1979-11-26)
Plain Language Summary
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Revises aid and attendance payments for certain disabled war veterans to provide a two-tiered schedule providing higher payments for veterans living independently from a nursing home or other full-time health care facility than for those veterans who are full-time patients at such facilities.…
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