Hospitals & Asylums
Chapter 2 Soldiers’ and Airmen’s Home
Any inmate of the home who is receiving a pension from the Government, and who has a child, wife, or parent living, shall be entitled, by filing with the Veterans' Administration a written direction to that effect, to have his pension, or any part of it, paid to such child, wife, or parent. The pensions of all inmates of the home, except such as shall be assigned as aforesaid, shall be paid to the treasurer of the home. The money thus derived shall not become a part of the funds of the home, but shall be held by the treasurer in trust for the pensioner to whom it would otherwise have been paid, and such part of it as shall not sooner have been paid to him shall be paid to him on his discharge from the institution. The board of commissioners may from time to time pay over to any inmate such part of his pension money as they think best for his interest and consistent with the discipline and good order of the home, but such pensioner shall not be entitled to demand or have the same so long as he remains an inmate of the home. In case of the death of any pensioner, any pension money due him and remaining in the hands of the treasurer shall be paid to his legal heirs, if demand is made within three years; otherwise the same shall escheat to the home.
(Mar. 3, 1883, ch. 130, §4, 22 Stat. 564; Aug. 17, 1912, ch. 301, §1, 37 Stat. 312; July 3, 1930, ch. 863, §1, 46 Stat. 1016; "Veterans' Administration" was substituted for "Bureau of Pensions" in view of act July 3, 1930, ch. 883, 1 1, 48 Stat. 1018, which consolidated the Bureau of Pensions, the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, and the United States Veterans' Bureau into an establishment to be known as the "Veterans' Administration"; Act July 3, 1930, was repealed by section 2202 (125) of Pub. L. 85-56, title XXII, June 17,1957, 71 Stat. 183; Section 201 of Pub. L. 85-56 continued the Veterans' Administration as an independent establishment in the executive branch of the Government; Nov. 8, 1985, Pub. L. 99–145, title XIII, §1301(f), 99 Stat. 737; Repealed. Pub. L. 101–189, div. A, title III, §347(1), (2), Nov. 29, 1989, 103 Stat. 1422; See section 201 of Title 38, Veterans' Benefits)