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Show announces rate for mobile home loans Education benefits for wives of PoWs GIs must report moving expenses President Nixon has signed into law new education lienefits for servicemen who have served 181 days of active duty rather than the two years as was previously required. Wives and children of prisoners of war have also Iieen cut in on these and other lienefits. TIIE new lienefits effective Deccmlier to 24, 1970, according Donald Johnson of the Veterans Administration. Hie reduction in active For income tax returns filed in 1971, servicemen are required to report payments received by them from the Government for travel and moving expenses. However, certain actual expenses incurred during the move may be deducted. Internal Revenue Service Form 3903 may lie used to itemize these deductions. Taxpayers should lie aware that such expenses as a house hunting trip, costs of selling a home or terminating a lease at the old residence, and of buying a home or entering a lease at the new residence, are now deductible, within certain limitations. The instructions accompanying IRS Form 3903 will le useful for most problems concerning the new deductions. Military personnel may consult their Legal Assistance Officer concerning unusual problems. Retention of receipts and the maintenance of accurate records by the taxpayer are emphasized. lie-cai- ne duty requirement to 181 days also applies to the of servicemen eligibility for Cl Loans guarantee lienefits. Hiis broadened eligibility makes it possible for men and women to use their GI Bill lienefits sooner while still in military service. Under previous policy, only servicemen pursuing higli school or college courses could qualGI Bill lienefits affor ify ter 181 days of service. Men pursuing college, corresand pondence, technical, business courses the Inilk of the trainees couldnt take advantage of the GI Bill lienefits until after two consecutive years of active duty. THOSE who take adGI vantage of inservice Bill lienefits for post high school studies will continue to have it counted against their liasic GI Bill eligibility. This means that for every mouth a soldier draws GI Bill allowances, he loses a month of liene-- . fits. The maximum schooling allowed under the GI Bill is 36 months. More civilian lUFs coming Beginning the first part of February, Defense will give RIF notices to a numlier of civilian employees whose jol have leen cancelled. A few notices may lie issued before then, officials said, but the bulk will come after February 1. Alxmt 15 percent of the civilian employees in the office of the Secretary of Defense and the Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff will lie notified. Defense says wherever possible OSD people on lie cancelled will lie placed in vacant positions to jobs for which they meet at least minimum qualifications. Each person placed in a vacancy will prevent a bumping action, a down grade, or a separation. pre-pato- THE ACTION CT A DT.C. VA MANTES predicts a Impala sharp higher than that. Since Cl Bill lienefits became available to The Veterans ' Administration has announced that the rate of interest to be charged on loans to finance the purchase of mobile homes has been set at 10.75 per cent. This rate applies to mobile home loans guaranteed by VA. PURCHASE of mobile homes under the Cl loan was authorized program for the first time by the Veterans Housing Act of vicemen on June 1, 1966, more than 156, (XX) servicemen have pursued studies under the program. End of show November figures there were 59,227 servicemen in training under the GI Bill. UNDER the new law wives and children of those memliers of the armed forces on active duty who have been listed for more than 90 days as captured, or forcibly detained or interred in the line of duty by a foreign government or power are eligible for educamissing-inactio- ser- - Feb. draft for 17,000 H up to a maximum of $10,-(Xfor the loan. Once the loan is paid off, the veteran is again eligible for a guaranteed loan on a conventional house, a guarantee that may go as high Johnson said that two-thirof the loans would which 1970, a measure also approved loans for the purchase of condominiums. Hie law also revived entitleexpired, ment for loans to all veterans. Administrator of Veterans Affairs Donald E. Johnson said that 20,000 veterans are expected to use GI loans to buy mobile homes during the first year of the un-us- program. be 'granted to veterans Fri., Feb. 5, 1971 re- cently returned from Vietnam and other duty, but that the revived eligibility to nine million World War II and Korean Conflict veterans will provide a demand not anticipated when the legislation was first planned. VA WILL guarantee up to 30 per cent of a loan for a mobile home. as $12,500. Veterans of World War II and the Korean Conflict with at least 90 days of active duty and veterans and servicemen with at least 181 days active duty after January 1955 are eligible for GI loans. n, Sunset Smashes Better Boot Prices With a Giant tional lienefits. Wives are also eligible for home loan lienefits. - $100 for collisions SPECIAL PURCHASE A recent change to Joint Travel Regulations prohibits reimbursement to military personnel for the cost of purchasing extra collision insurance when renting an automobile for official, business, when the purchase of extra insurance is optional, and the fee is not included in the rental of Famous . (SEQ fee. Military personnel may be reimbursed, not in excess of $100, for personal funds paid to rental car companies for damage sus- tained to automobiles; pro- -' perly rented, and damaged in the performance of offi--- 1 cial business, when extra collision insurance was not purchased. Claims for reimbursement for such personal funds ex-pended will lie supported by receipts and an itemized statement of the repairs. 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Above policies became effective 17 November 1970, of through amendment Joint Travel Regulations, Volume I, Paragraph M 440, by the Per Diem Travel and Transportation Allowance Committee Joint SimiDetermination lar changes to Volume 2, JTF, applicable to civilian personnel, are under is 80-7- Hie Department of Defense has requested the Selective Service System to provide the Armed Forces and Entrance Examining I 0m .4 i Mi YOUR CHOICE 0. y, ; j MENS AND LADIES Stations with 17,(XX) inductees in February. All of these inductees are for the Army. This request supports currently approved strength levels and will assure a timely flow of replacements for personnel completing their terms of service. Hie draft call for January also was Come drive a Vega The DESERET SAMPLE ry enrollrise in ment as a result of the new legislation. The official predictimi is for a 50, (XX) serviceman increase in the GI Bill enrollment. 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