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Show $000 Bonus: Strinq Attached The Veterans Administration Administra-tion is reminding World War I veterans in four Rocky Mountain States that the $800 pension bonus Congress ' approved for them last year isn't automatic in fact, it has some important strings attached. ... .. . i j MANY OF the nearly 8,000 World War I veterans currently receiving VA pension pen-sion payments in Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and New Mexico apparently assumed they automatically qualified for the additional $800 payment included under a revised pension plan passed by the 95th Congress. But receipt of the bonus payment depends on the veteran's acceptance of the improved pension plan which, in some instances, would mean less income for the veteran, VA pointed out. UNDER THE improved pension plan - the one to which the $800 bonus is attached at-tached - all of a World War 1 veteran's outside income is counted and the VA pension will be reduced dollar for dollar accordingly. Veterans Administration counselors in regional offices in Denver, Cheyenne, Salt Lake City and Albuquerque, and service officers at local veterans organizations, are ready to assist World War I veterans in making the best choice regarding their VA pension. VETERANS HAVE until next Oct. 1 to make the choice if they wish to receive payments under the revised J program retroactive to Jan. 1, ' 1979. |