[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: 38CFR10.25]

[Page 536]
 
            TITLE 38--PENSIONS, BONUSES, AND VETERANS' RELIEF
 
                CHAPTER I--DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
 
PART 10_ADJUSTED COMPENSATION--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 10.25  Payment of death claim on adjusted service certificate 

without bond.

    If the veteran named in the adjusted service certificate, issued 
pursuant to the provisions of section 501 of the World War Adjusted 
Compensation Act, is deceased, and if the certificate was lost or 
destroyed wholly or in part or was so defaced as to impair its value 
prior to receipt by the veteran, or was partially destroyed or defaced 
after receipt by the veteran, but can be identified to the satisfaction 
of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, payment will be made of the 
proceeds of the certificate, a bond of indemnity will not be required, 
and a duplicate adjusted service certificate will not be issued: 
Provided, The person entitled to payment thereon surrenders the defaced 
or mutilated certificate or so much thereof as may remain.