Title 50, War and National DefenseRelease 119-102
§4137 Consolidated Awards
Title 50 › CHAPTER 51 — WAR CLAIMS › SUBCHAPTER II — TITLE II OF WAR CLAIMS ACT OF 1948 › § 4137
Summary
The Commission may give one combined award to all people who hold a claim when those people, not the person who suffered the loss, own the claim at the time of the award. The award will show each person’s share, and each person gets payments in proportion to that share, treated the same as if the award had gone to a single person.
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Title 50, §4137
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With respect to any claim which, at the time of the award, is vested in persons other than the person by whom the loss was sustained, the Commission may issue a consolidated award in favor of all claimants then entitled thereto, which award shall indicate the respective interests of such claimant therein; and all such claimants shall participate, in proportion to their indicated interests, in the payments authorized by this subchapter in all respects as if the award had been in favor of a single person.
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Codification Section was formerly classified to section 2017f of the former Appendix to this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.
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50 U.S.C. § 4137
Title 50, War and National Defense
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102