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Show checks, involving some ?15-million, ?15-million, are returned to disbursing dis-bursing offices during a year causing inconvenience and, often, of-ten, suffering to many thou- sand veterans and their survi- vors. In addition, hundreds of thousands of tax-dollars in extra ex-tra man-hours are spent in ; locating the recipients and double-handling the checks." The VA official pointed out that a few minutes spent at the post office filling out a change of address card, and in dropping a short note to the VA office at Salt Lake City, 1 could eliminate most of this problem. Veteran checks go unclaimed Thousands of dollars in monthly Veteran Administration Administra-tion payments for compensation, compensa-tion, pension and other benefits bene-fits for veterans or their survivor, sur-vivor, in Utah were returned to the U. S. Treasury Disbursing Disburs-ing Office as "undeliverable" last month, according to Elmer El-mer J. Smith, manager of the VA Regional Office in Salt Lake City. These checks were "undeliverable" "undeli-verable" because the person for whom they were intended had moved and had failed to notify the VA and the post office of a change of address. "Nationally," Smith said, "almost 200,000 VA benefit |