[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: 38CFR3.27]

[Page 169-170]
 
            TITLE 38--PENSIONS, BONUSES, AND VETERANS' RELIEF
 
                CHAPTER I--DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
 
PART 3_ADJUDICATION--Table of Contents
 
     Subpart A_Pension, Compensation, and Dependency and Indemnity 
                              Compensation
 
Sec.  3.27  Automatic adjustment of benefit rates.

    (a) Improved pension. Whenever there is a cost-of-living increase in 
benefit amounts payable under section 215(i) of title II of the Social 
Security Act, VA

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shall, effective on the dates such increases become effective, increase 
by the same percentage each maximum annual rate of pension.


(Authority: 38 U.S.C. 5312(a))

    (b) Parents' dependency and indemnity compensation--maximum annual 
income limitation and maximum monthly rates. Whenever there is a cost-
of-living increase in benefit amounts payable under section 215(i) of 
title II of the Social Security Act, VA shall, effective on the dates 
such increases become effective, increase by the same percentage the 
annual income limitations and the maximum monthly rates of dependency 
indemnity compensation for parents.


(Authority: 38 U.S.C. 5312(b)(1))

    (c) Monetary allowance under 38 U.S.C. chapter 18 for certain 
individuals who are children of Vietnam veterans. Whenever there is a 
cost-of-living increase in benefit amounts payable under section 215(i) 
of Title II of the Social Security Act, VA shall, effective on the dates 
such increases become effective, increase by the same percentage the 
monthly allowance rates under 38 U.S.C. chapter 18.


(Authority: 38 U.S.C. 1805(b)(3), 1815(d), 5312)

    (d) Medal of Honor pension. Beginning in the year 2004, VA shall, 
effective December 1 of each year, increase the monthly Medal of Honor 
pension by the same percentage as the percentage by which benefit 
amounts payable under section 215(i) of Title II of the Social Security 
Act are increased effective December 1 of such year.


(Authority: 38 U.S.C. 1562(e))

    (e) Publishing requirements. Increases in pension rates, parents' 
dependency and indemnity compensation rates and income limitation, the 
monthly allowance rates under 38 U.S.C. chapter 18 and the Medal of 
Honor pension made under this section shall be published in the Federal 
Register.


(Authority: 38 U.S.C. 1805(b)(3), 1815(d), 5312(c)(1))

[44 FR 45934, Aug. 6, 1979, as amended at 52 FR 34908, Sept. 14, 1987; 
62 FR 51278, Sept. 30, 1997; 67 FR 49586, July 31, 2002; 68 FR 55467, 
Sept. 26, 2003]