[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 45, Volume 3]

[Revised as of October 1, 2005]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 45CFR504.1]



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                        TITLE 45--PUBLIC WELFARE

 

 CHAPTER V--FOREIGN CLAIMS SETTLEMENT COMMISSION OF THE UNITED STATES, 

                          DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

 

PART 504_FILING OF CLAIMS AND PROCEDURES THEREFOR--Table of Contents

 

Sec. 504.1  Claim defined.









Sec.

504.1 Claim defined.

504.2 Time within which claims may be filed.

504.3 Official claim forms.

504.4 Place of filing claims.

504.5 Documents to accompany forms.

504.6 Receipt of claims.



    Authority: Sec. 2, Pub. L. 896, 80th Cong., as amended (50 U.S.C. 

App. 2001).



    Source: 66 FR 49844, Oct. 1, 2001, unless otherwise noted.





    (a) This subchapter is included solely in order to provide for the 

adjudication of any additional claims that may arise on behalf of 

survivors of deceased civilians and military veterans who had been 

listed as missing during the Vietnam conflict but were subsequently 

determined to have been interned, in hiding, or captured by a hostile 

force in Southeast Asia (see Sec. 504.2(a)(3) and (b)(3)). The 

Commission no longer has authority to receive or consider any other 

types of claims based on the internment of civilians or the maltreatment 

of military servicemen held as prisoners of war by forces hostile to the 

United States.

    (b) A properly completed and executed application made on an 

official form provided by the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission for 

such purpose constitutes a claim and will be processed under the laws 

administered by the Commission.

    (c) Any communication, letter, note, or memorandum from a claimant, 

or the claimant's duly authorized representative, or a person acting as 

next friend of a claimant who is not legally competent, setting forth 

sufficient facts to apprise the Commission of an interest to apply under 

the provisions of sections 5(i) and 6(f) of the Act, will be deemed to 

be an informal claim. Where an informal claim is received and an 

official form is forwarded for completion and execution by the 

applicant, that official form will be considered as evidence necessary 

to complete the initial claim, and unless that official form is received 

within thirty (30) days from the date it was transmitted for execution, 

if the claimant resides in the continental United States, or forty-five 

(45) days if outside the continental United States, the claim may be 

disallowed.