 1099) was a piece of United States legislation that provided for the issuance of US Treasury Bonds to veterans who had served in World War I as a form of economic stimulus and relief.The act is sometimes considered to be part of the "New Deal" though it was not supported by then President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the law was one of several pieces of United States legislation popularly known together as the "Bonus Act," which was enacted after Congress overrode President Franklin D. Roosevelt's veto on January 27, 1936.Congress had sustained Roosevelt's previous veto of an earlier version of the bill in 1935, called the Patman Greenback Bonus Bill.