VETERANS' AND SURVIVORS' PENSION IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1978 HEARING BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON VETERANS' AFFAIRS UNITED STATES SENATE NINETY-FIFTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION ON S. 2384 33-893 O FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1978 Printed for the use of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1978 COMMITTEE ON VETERANS' AFFAIRS ALAN CRANSTON, California, Chairman HERMAN E. TALMADGE, Georgia JENNINGS RANDOLPH, West Virginia RICHARD (DICK) STONE, Florida JOHN A. DURKIN, New Hampshire SPARK M. MATSUNAGA, Hawaii STROM THURMOND, South Carolina CLIFFORD P. HANSEN, Wyoming ROBERT T. STAFFORD, Vermont CONTENTS Opening statement of Hon. Alan Cranston, chairman of the Committee on Bill S. 2384, as referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Introductory statement of author, Chairman Alan Cranston, excerpt from the Congressional Record, December 15, 1977--- Agency report of the Veterans' Administration (No. 71, Feb. 2, 1978)__ Dorothy L. Starbuck, Chief Benefits Director, Veterans' Administra- tion, accompanied by J. C. Peckarsky, Director, Compensation and Pension Service; and Norman Paulson, Office of the General Coun- Harold B. Say, legislative director of the Veterans of World War I, Inc., accompanied by Ray Akin, national commander... Robert E. Lyngh, director, national veterans affairs and rehabilitation commission, accompanied by Edward J. Lord, assistant director, national legislative commission, The American Legion___. Donald H. Schwab, director, national legislative service, Veterans of Foreign Wars, accompanied by Robert L. Ashworth, director, C. Dennis McClure, legislative director, AMVETS. Larry W. Roffee, Jr., executive director, Paralyzed Veterans of America, accompanied by Lynn Phillips, assistant legislative Dorothy L. Starbuck, Chief Benefits Director, Veterans' Administra- Harold B. Say, legislative director, Veterans of World War I of the Robert E. Lyngh, director, national veterans affairs and rehabilitation |