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Show BENEFIT INCREASE COMING TO DISABLED VETERANS Veterans in the Utah area drawing draw-ing compensation for more than 60 per cent disability will be notified no-tified in a few weeks as to how they may qualify for new mcress-ed mcress-ed benefits for dependents so listed. list-ed. ' The announcement came Saturday Satur-day from E. A. Littlefield, manager man-ager of the Salt Lake regional office of-fice of the Veterans' Administration. Administra-tion. The increases will range, up to $91 per month for a totally disabled dis-abled veteran with a wife, three children and two dependent parents, par-ents, he said. The additional benefits bene-fits become effective Sept. 1 Check's due Oct. 1 will 'carry the first increases, provided the veteran complies with V. A. instructions. in-structions. Veterans establishing dependencies before Dec. 1 Mr Littlefield explained, will ' have their increases retroactive to kept. 1. Dependencies established after Dec. 2, he said, become effective ef-fective when approved. The new wartime rates, based on 100 per cent wartime disability disabil-ity with proportionate amounts for partially disabled, follow n'lfUt ChUd' $21'" Wife and one child, $35; wife and two children, chil-dren, $45.50; wife and three or more children, $56; no wife but one child, $14; no wife but two children, $24.50; no wife but three iKS children. $35; each dependent de-pendent parent, $17.50. Peacetime Peace-time disability rates are SO per cent of the above. 1 |