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Executive Order No. 6157, June 6, 1933
Veterans Regulation No. 3 (a)
Schedule for rating disabilities.
Whereas section 3, title I, of Public, No. 2, 73d Congress, entitled "An act to maintain the credit of the United States Government", Provides:
For each class of persons specified in subparagraphs (a) and (b) of section 1 of this title the President is hereby authorized to prescribe by regulation the minimum degrees of disability and such higher degrees of disability, of any, as in his judgement should be recognized and prescribe the rate of pension pay- able for each such degree of disability. In fixing rates of pensions for disability or death the President shall prescribe by regulation such differentiation as he may deem just and equitable, in the rates to be paid to veterans of different wars and/or their dependents and to be paid for
(a) Disabilities and deaths resulting from disease or injury incurred or aggravated in line of duty in war-time service;
(b) Disabilities and deaths resulting from disease or injury incurred or aggravated in line of duty in peace-time service;
(c) Disabilities and deaths not incurred in service.
Now, therefore, by virtue of the authority vested in me by said law, the following regulation is hereby promulgated, canceling Vet- erans Regulation No. 3, and substituting therefor Veterans Regulation No. 3 (a), to read as follows:
I. The Administrator of Veterans' Affairs is hereby authorized and directed to adopt and apply a schedule of ratings of reductions in earning capacity from specific injuries or combination of injuries. The ratings shall be based, as far as practicable, upon the average impairments of earning capacity resulting from such injuries in civil occupations. The schedule shall be constructed so as to provide ten grades of disability and no more, upon which payments of pension shall be based, namely, ten percent, twenty percent, thirty percent, forty percent, fifty percent, sixty percent, seventy percent, eighty percent, ninety percent, and total, one hundred percent. The Ad- ministrator of Veterans' Affairs shall from time to time readjust this schedule of ratings in accordance with experience.
II. In connection with the review directed by Section 17 of Public,
No. 2, 73d Congress, the schedule of ratings provided for herein
shall not operate to reduce by more than 25 per centum (exclusive of
special statutory allowances) the payments being made to any vet-
eran who on March 20, 1933, was properly rated on a permanent
basis and who meets the requirements of Regulation No. 1, part I.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The White House
June 6, 1933
[No. 6157]
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