PERMANENT AUTHORITY FOR PROTECTION OF HEALTH-CARE ELIGIBILITY FOR CERTAIN PENSION RECIPIENTS.

SEC. 403. PERMANENT AUTHORITY FOR PROTECTION OF HEALTH-CARE ELIGIBILITY FOR CERTAIN PENSION RECIPIENTS. (a) Permanent Protection.— Section 1525 is amended— (1) in subsection (a), by striking out “during the program period” and inserting in lieu thereof “after January 31, 1985,”; and (2) by striking out subsection (b) and inserting in lieu thereof the following: “(b) For purposes of this section, the term ‘terminated by reason of income from work or training’ means terminated as a result of the veteran’s receipt of earnings from activity performed for renumeration or with gain, but only if the veterans annual income from sources other than such earnings would, taken alone, not result in the termination of the veteran’s pension.”. (b) Clerical Amendments.— (1) The heading of such section is amended to read as follows: 106 STAT. 4338 “§ 1525. Protection of health-care eligibility”. (2) The item relating to such section in the table of sections at the beginning of chapter 15 is amended to read as follows: “1525. Protection of health-care eligibility.”.