| Show MILLIONS IN BACK PAY NOW IN SIGHT payment of millions of dollars in back compensation to disabled world war veterans depends upon the outcome ot of a controversy between the national rehabilitation committee of the american legion and tho the united states veterans bureau gen frank T illges director of the veterans bureau has issued preliminary instructions to field ollices offices that payment of retroactive compensation to those persons whose cases have been connected with service under section 2 of the world war veterans act of 1024 may not be made tor for any period before the date of the approval of the act on june 7 1824 1024 watson B miller filler IN chairman 0 of the leg legion on committee ha lia staken issue with tills view mr sillier declares that there Is 13 in the phrasing of the law a definite nite suggestion of lifty in that the alie time a man acquired liis ills disability Is back dirbin a period now some years remote no claims which have been connected with service by historical facts wherein under the provisions of section tion of the act compensation may be paid retroactively for one year prior to the filing of the claim the amount depending upon the physical condition of tile the claimant during that period are affected by the bureaus preliminary ruling it waa pointed out the legion purposes it was vas learned to place upon the same status those claims which have now nov been connected with service through the operation of the presumptive clause of the new act the importance of 0 the ruling can easily be recognized when it Is stated that during the I 1 first month of operation under the presumptive provision 2800 2500 atric find and amoebic dysentery cases makin making a total of claims were connected with service and placed upon a basis these cases atone alone at the hospital rate ft was declared involve a bill half f million dollars in compensation each month it if the legion wins its point the benefits to the men involved would be enormous the fact that the bureau tins lias not yet issued a permanent regulation covering this point although wore than two months have passed since tile the passage of the act Is taken to indicate the possibility of a favorable decision |
