[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 38, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 38CFR10.24]

[Page 536]
 
            TITLE 38--PENSIONS, BONUSES, AND VETERANS' RELIEF
 
                CHAPTER I--DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
 
PART 10_ADJUSTED COMPENSATION--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 10.24  Payment of death claim on lost, destroyed or mutilated 

adjusted service certificate with bond.

    If the veteran named in an adjusted service certificate, issued 
pursuant to the provisions of section 501 of the World War Adjusted 
Compensation Act, is deceased, and if, after receipt by the veteran, the 
adjusted service certificate was lost, destroyed, or so defaced as to 
impair its value and cannot be identified to the satisfaction of the 
Secretary of Veterans Affairs, the person entitled to payment thereon 
will be required to furnish an indemnity bond in the manner and form 
prescribed by the Department of Veterans Affairs and for an amount equal 
to the face value of the certificate, with surety or sureties residents 
of the United States and satisfactory to the Secretary of Veterans 
Affairs with condition to indemnify and save harmless the United States 
from any claim on account of such certificate, before payment will be 
made of the proceeds of the certificate and a duplicate adjusted service 
certificate will not be issued.