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Executive Order No. 6232
Veterans Regulation No. 6 (a)
Eligibility for Domiciliary or Hospital Care, Including Medical Treatment
Whereas, section 6 title I, of Public No. 2, 73d Con-
gress, entitled "An act to maintain the credit of the United States Government", as amended by Section 1, Public No. 78, 73d Congress, entitled "An act making appropriations for the Executive Office and sundry in- dependent executive bureaus boards, commissions, and offices, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1934, and for other purposes", provides:
In addition to the pensions provided in this title the Adminis-
trator of Veterans' Affairs is hereby authorized under such limi- tations as may be prescribed by the President, and within the limits of existing Veterans' Administration facilities to furnish to men discharged from the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard for disabilities incurred in line of duty and to veterans of any war, including the Boxer Rebellion and the Philippine Insurrection, domiciliary care where they are suffering with permanent disabilities, tuberculosis, or neuropsychiatric ailments and medical and hospital treatment for diseases or injuries.
Now, therefore, by virtue of the authority vested in
me by said law, the following regulation is hereby pro- mulgated cancelling Veterans Regulation No. 6 and sub- stituting therefor Veterans Regulation No. 6 (a) to read as follows:
- The Administrator of Veterans' Affairs, within the
limits of Veterans' Administration facilities, is author- ized to furnish domiciliary or hospital care, including medical treatment, to the following persons and in the specified order of preference:
- To honorably discharged veterans of any war,
including the Boxer Rebellion and the Philippine In- surrection, who are suffering with injuries or diseases which were incurred or aggrevated in line of duty in the active military or naval service when in need of hospital treatment for such injuries or diseases;
- To persons honorably discharged from the
United States Army, Navy, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard for disabilities incurred in line of duty, who are suffering with injuries or diseases which were incurred or aggravated in line of duty in the active military or naval service when in need of hospital treatment for such injuries or diseases;
- To honorably discharged veterans of any war, in-
chiding the Boxer Rebellion and the Philippine Insur- rection, who served in the active military or naval service for a period of ninety days or more who are suffering with permanent disabilities or tuberculous or neuropsychiatric ailments, which incapacitate them from earning a living, and who have no adequate means of support;
- To persons honorably discharged from the
United States Army, Navy, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard for disabilities incurred in line of duty, who served in the active military or naval service for a period of ninety days or more, who are suffering with perma- nent disabilities or tuberculous or neuropsychiatric ail- ments, which incapacitate them from earning a living, and who have no adequate means of support.
- No clothing shall be furnished to any person ad-
mitted to a Veterans' Administration facility and while a member thereof except under the following conditions:
- Where the person is indigent and the furnishing
of clothing is necessary to protect health or sanitation;
- Where the person requires special clothing made
necessary by the wearing of prosthetic appliances.
- Reasonable traveling and other expenses of the
person to a Veterans' Administration facility may be paid in the discretion of the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs only when the person is granted prior authority to report to a Veterans' Administration facility for treat- ment of injury or disease incurred or aggravated in line of duty in the active military or naval service. Upon completion of such treatment as may be prescribed and regular discharge by the Veterans' Administration, rea- sonable traveling, and other expenses of the person, from the Veterans' Administration facility to the place from which hospitalized may be paid in the discretion of the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs. In the event of the death of any person prior to discharge, transportation expenses (including preparation of the body) for the return of the body to the place of residence or the near- est National cemetery may be paid in the discretion of the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs when deemed necessary and as an administrative necessity.
- No person shall be entitled to receive domiciliary,
medical, or hospital care, including treatment, who re- sides outside of the continental limits of the United States or its territories or possessions.
- The Administrator of Veterans' Affairs is hereby
authorized to provide such rules and procedure govern- ing domiciliary or hospital care as he may deem proper and necessary.
- Pension for disability the result of injury or dis-
ease incurred or aggravated in. the line of duty in the active military or naval service, and emergency officers retirement pay, of any person who is being furnished hospital treatment, institutional, or domiciliary care the United States, or any political subdivision thereof, shall not exceed $15 per month, provided that where such person has a wife, child, or dependent mother or father the difference by which the amount to which such disabled person would otherwise be entitled exceeds $15 will be payable to the wife, child, or dependent mother or father, as may be prescribed by the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs. Where any disabled person having neither wife, child nor dependent mother or father, is being maintained by the Government of the United States, or any political subdivision thereof, in an insti- tution and shall be deemed by the Administrator of Vet- erans' Affairs to be insane, the pension for such person shall thereafter not exceed $15 per month so long as he shall be maintained by the Government of the United States, or any political subdivision thereof, in an insti- tution: provided, however, that in any case where the estate of such person derived from funds paid under the War Risk Insurance Act, as amended, the World War Veterans' Act, 1924, as amended, the several pen- sion acts and/or this act equals or exceeds $1,500, any payments of pension being made will be discontinued until the estate derived from such funds is reduced to $500. The provisions of this paragraph shall also be applicable to pensions for disability the result of injury or incurred after active military or naval service, except that the amount payable while the veteran is in the institution shall be $6.00 per month instead of $15.00 per month. As to pension payable on account of serv- ice prior to the Spanish-American War, the amount pay- able while the veteran is in the institution shall be $15.00 per month in all cases.
- Where a disabled person entitled to pension
under Public, No. 2, 73d Congress, or emergency officers' retirement pay is a patient in a Veterans' Administra- tion facility, or where for any other reason the disabled person and his wife are not living together, or where the child or children are not in the custody of the dis- abled person, or in the custody of the widow, the amount of the pension may be apportioned as may be prescribed by the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs.
- The Administrator of Veterans' Affairs is au-
thorized to continue hospital care of those persons prop- erly admitted under the laws in effect prior to March 20, 1933, until such time as they may be discharged with- out jeopardizing their health or life.
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The White House,
July 28th, 1933.
[No. 6232]
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