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Show Large sum goes to Utah vets, families Veterans and their families in Utah received a total of $31,950,000 in cash benefits and services during the fiscal year of 1961, Elmer J. Smith, manager of the Utah VA Regional Re-gional Office announces. In Utah, compensation for service-connected d i s a b ilities and pensions for non-service-connected disabilities were paid to 12,800 living veterans in the amount of $10,500,000. Death compensation and pension pen-sion were paid to the dependents depen-dents of 3300 deceased veterans veter-ans in the amount of $2,995,-000. $2,995,-000. Certain GI insurance dividend divi-dend and indemnity payments totaling $4,200,000 were made to veterans and their beneficiaries. benefi-ciaries. An average of 28 disabled veterans of World War II and the Korean Conflict in Utah trained during the year under the vocational rehabilitation act, to overcome the handicaps of their disabilities. They received re-ceived $55,000 in subsistence, tuition, supplies and equipment. |
