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[CITE: 38USC1142]

 
                      TITLE 38--VETERANS' BENEFITS
 
                        PART II--GENERAL BENEFITS
 
   CHAPTER 11--COMPENSATION FOR SERVICE-CONNECTED DISABILITY OR DEATH
 
               SUBCHAPTER V--PEACETIME DEATH COMPENSATION
 
Sec. 1142. Rates of peacetime death compensation

    For the purposes of section 1141 of this title, the monthly rates of 
death compensation payable shall be those specified in section 1122 of 
this title.

(Pub. L. 85-857, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1124, Sec. 342; Pub. L. 93-295, 
title II, Sec. 206(a), May 31, 1974, 88 Stat. 183; renumbered Sec. 1142 
and amended Pub. L. 102-83, Sec. 5(a), (c)(1), Aug. 6, 1991, 105 Stat. 
406.)


                               Amendments

    1991--Pub. L. 102-83, Sec. 5(a), renumbered section 342 of this 
title as this section.
    Pub. L. 102-83, Sec. 5(c)(1), substituted ``1141'' for ``341'' and 
``1122'' for ``322''.
    1974--Pub. L. 93-295 substituted ``those specified in section 322 of 
this title'' for ``equal to 80 per centum of the rates prescribed by 
section 322 of this title, adjusted upward or downward to the nearest 
dollar, counting fifty cents and over as a whole dollar''.


                    Effective Date of 1974 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 93-295 effective May 1, 1974, see section 401 
of Pub. L. 93-295, set out as a note under section 1114 of this title.
