Sec. 105. receipt of workmen’s compensation benefits
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## Sec. 105 receipt of workmen’s compensation benefits **[**[42 U.S.C. 1705](/us/usc/t42/s1705)**]** ###
(a)No benefits shall be paid or furnished under the provisions of this title for injury or death to any person who recovers or receives workmen’s compensation benefits for the same injury or death under any other law of the United States, or under the law of any State, Territory, possession, foreign country, or other jurisdiction, or benefits in the nature of workmen’s compensation benefits payable under an agreement approved or authorized by the United States pursuant to which a contractor with the United States has undertaken to provide such benefits. ###
(b)The Commission shall have a lien and a right of recovery, to the extent of any payments made under this title on account of injury or death, against any compensation payable under any other workmen’s compensation law on account of the same injury or death: and any amounts recovered under this subsection shall be covered into the fund established under section 35 of such Act of September 7,1916, as amended. ###
(c)Where any person specified in section 101 (a), or the dependent, beneficiary, or allottee of such person, receives or claims wages, payments in lieu of wages, insurance benefits for disability or loss of life (other than workmen’s compensation benefits), and the cost of such wages, payments, or benefits is provided in whole or in part by the United States, the amount of such wages, payments, or benefits shall be credited, in such manner as the Commission shall determine, against any payments to which any such person is entitled under this title. Where any person specified in section 101 (a), or any dependent, beneficiary, or allottee of such person, or the legal representative or estate of ally such entities, after having. obtained benefits under this title, seeks through any proceeding, claim, or otherwise, brought or maintained against the employer, the United States. or other person, to recover wages, payments in lieu of wages, or any sum claimed as for services rendered, or for failure to furnish transportation, or for liquidated or unliquidated damages under the employment contract, or any other benefit, and the right in respect thereto is alleged to have accrued during or as to any period of time in respect of which payments under this title in such case have been made, and in like cases where a recovery is made or allowed, the Commission shall have the right of intervention and a lien and right of recovery to the extent of any payments paid and payable under this title in such case, provided the cost of such wages, payments in lieu of wage, or other such right, may be directly or indirectly paid by the United States; and any amounts recovered under this subsection shall be covered into the fund established under section 35 of such Act of September 7, 1916, as amended. ###
(d)Where a national of a foreign government is entitled to benefits on account of injury or death resulting from a war-risk hazard, under the laws of his native country or any other foreign country, the benefits of this title of this title shall not apply. ###
(e)If at the time a person sustains an injury coming within the purview of this title said person is receiving workmen’s compensation benefits on account of a prior accident or disease, said person shall not be entitled to any benefits under this title during the period covered by such workmen’s compensation benefits unless the injury from a war-risk hazard increases his disability, and then only to the extent such disability has been so increased.
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