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Show New Opportunity in Benefits Going Now to New Veterans Almost 2.4 million World War II servicemen have a new -oijjiporl unity to obtain V. homo loans acrording to an estimate by 1he Veterans Vet-erans Adminisl ration. One provision of Public Pub-lic Law 90-77, Kignod recently re-cently by the President, benefit's veterans who had relatively long periods of World War 13 service. The final cutoff date for CI loans for these men and women was extended from July 25, 1967 to July 25, 1970. Mr. Elmer . Smith, Man ager of the Salt Lake City, VA Regional Office said that the length of time an individual veteran remains eligible for GI loan benefits bene-fits depends on his date of discharge and the length of his active wartime duty. Also, all World War II veterans discharged for service connected disabilities disabili-ties Will have until July 25 1970, to use their GI loan benefits. Eligible widows of World War II servicemen or veterans whose deaths were due to military service ser-vice received the same extension. ex-tension. All veterans who have certificates of Eligibility bearing a uly 25, 1967 expiration ex-piration date were urged to submit a new application applica-tion and their discharge papers to the VA office serving' their area. VA will recompute their expiration date and endorse the new date on their certificates. Any World War n veteran vet-eran may apply to the VA for a determination or eligibility for CI loan benefits. ben-efits. Tho VA pointed out, however, that the new leg-3 leg-3 statu re linen not extend eligibility which expired before July 25, 1907. |