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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 6160. Pension to persons serving ten years
(a) Every disabled person who has served in the Navy or Marine
Corps as an enlisted member or petty officer, or both, for ten or
more years, and has not been discharged for misconduct, may apply
to the Secretary of the Navy for aid.
(b) Upon receipt of an application under subsection (a), the
Secretary of the Navy may convene a board of not less than three
naval officers (one of whom shall be a surgeon) to examine into the
condition of the applicant, and to recommend a suitable amount for
his relief, and for a specified time. If the Secretary of the Navy
approves the recommendation, he shall so certify to the Secretary
of Veterans Affairs, who shall pay a pension in such amount monthly
to the applicant.
(c) No naval pension under this section shall be paid at a rate
in excess of the rate payable to a veteran of World War I for
permanent and total non-service-connected disability, unless the
applicant's disability is service-connected, in which case the
naval pension payable to him shall not exceed the rate of
disability compensation payable for total disability to a veteran
of any war, or of peacetime service, as the case may be. In the
case of any initial award of naval pension granted before July 14,
1943, where the person granted the naval pension is also entitled
to pension or compensation under laws administered by the Secretary
of Veterans Affairs, such naval pension shall not exceed one-fourth
of such pension or compensation.
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