ADMINISTRATION OF SPECIAL DISABILITY BENEFITS.

SEC. 3538. ADMINISTRATION OF SPECIAL DISABILITY BENEFITS. Section 1245 (22 U.S.C. 3682) is amended by striking so much as precedes subsection (b) and inserting the following: “administration of certain disability benefits “Sec. 1245. (a) (1) The Commission, or any other United States Government agency or private entity acting pursuant to an agreement with the Commission, under the Act entitled ‘An Act authorizing cash relief for certain employees of the Panama Canal not coming within the provisions of the Canal Zone Retirement Act’, 110 STAT. 2865approved July 8, 1937 (50 Stat. 478; 68 Stat. 17), may continue the payments of cash relief to those individual former employees of the Canal Zone Government or Panama Canal Company or their predecessor agencies not coming within the scope of the former Canal Zone Retirement Act whose services were terminated prior to October 5, 1958, because of unfitness for further useful service by reason of mental or physical disability resulting from age or disease. “(2) Subject to subsection (b), cash relief under this subsection may not exceed $1.50 per month for each year of service of the employees so furnished relief, with a maximum of $45 per month, plus the amount of any cost-of-living increases in such cash relief granted before October 1, 1979, pursuant to section 181 of title 2 of the Canal Zone Code (as in effect on September 30, 1979), nor be paid to any employee who, at the time of termination for disability prior to October 5, 1958, had less than 10 years’ service with the Canal Zone Government, the Panama Canal Company, or their predecessor agencies on the Isthmus of Panama.”.