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Show Veterans' questions answered Mr. and Mrs. Gary Mecham and son Keith, left Tuesday, December 3 for Tucson, Arizona, Ari-zona, where Gary will be stationed sta-tioned with the Air Force as aircraft crew .chief. He just recently returned from serving year in Vietnam. Mrs. Mecham visited him in Augrust of this year in Hawaii during his rest Some men see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say why not. . Robert Kennedy by law until the first of next year. Question I understand that President Johnson recently signed into law a bill increasing VA compensation com-pensation payments to veterans with service-connected disabilities. disabil-ities. I am rated 100 percent service-disabled. How much of an increase will I receive and when will it go into effect? Answer As a veteran with 100 percent per-cent service-connected disability your monthly VA compensation payment will be increased under un-der Public Law 90-493, signed by Prfesident Johnson on August Au-gust 19, 1968, from 5300 to $400 if your disability was incurred in-curred in time of war and from $240 to $320 if Incurred in peacetime. The increase will go into effect ef-fect on January 1, 1969, and should be reflected in your January check which you will receive around February 1, 1969. Question Late last March President Johnson signed a law which, I understand, not only protects me against any loss in my VA pension due to the Social Security Se-curity increase I received this year, but also increases my pension as the result of a new income scale the VA uses. My pension check is still the same. Why haven't I received an increase. in-crease. Answer Because any increase to which you may be entitled as the result of the change in the income scaJe will not become effective until January 1. 1969, under Public Law 90-275, signed by the President on March 28, 1968. The provision protecting your pension against any reduction due to the increased Social Security Se-curity benefits before 1970 went into effect at the time the law was signed, but the $200 increase in income limitation limita-tion changes in monthly VA pension checks were deferred |