Federal · Title 38 — Veterans’ Benefits
38 U.S.C. § 5311: Prohibition of certain benefit payments
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There shall be no payment of dependency and indemnity compensation, death compensation, or death pension which, because of a widow’s relationship with another man before enactment of Public Law 87–674 , would not have been payable by the Veterans’ Administration under the standard for determining remarriage applied by that agency before said enactment.
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