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Show Education, Training for Korean Vets; Application, Pay Checks (Editor's Note: This is the second sec-ond in a series of articles on Education Ed-ucation and Training for Korean Veterans under the Korean GI Bill). Veterans intending to enter training under the Korean GI Bill should not wait until a few days before they are to enter to make application, Veterans Administration Ad-ministration warns. Here are a few tips from VA on how to get the ball rolling: The veteran should contact or write any VA office for an application ap-plication blank, fill it out completely, com-pletely, attach photostatic copies cop-ies or certified copies of both sides of his discharge or separation separ-ation paper, and send this application appli-cation to the nearest VA office. If approved, VA will send the veteran a Certificate of Education Educa-tion and Training. He presents tablishment, and arranges with the school or establishment to start his training. If aiming for a college degree, he should state the degree, in his application. If he is going to college, but not for a degree, he should list the subjects making up his program. If he is going to a school below the college level, the courses leading to his objective. ob-jective. And, if he is going to take on-the-job training, he should put down the employment employ-ment objective for which the course will qualify him. A veteran applying for institutional institu-tional on-the-farm training must include (1) a detailed outline of his program as set up by his school; (2) a certification from the school stating that the program pro-gram meets all standards of the law, and, (3) evidence that the veteran has control of the farm and that the training program will occupy his full time. Once started, a veteran may change his program only once, under any circumstances. For that reason, he should be definite on a goal. Vocational counseling, to help the veteran select his objective, ob-jective, is required of disabled veterans intending to train under the Vocational Rehabilitation Act. It is not required of other veterans, veter-ans, but is available to them upon request. The Government will send the veteran in training a check each month. VA does not pay the school separately for tuition and fees for training under the Korean Ko-rean GI Bill. The veteran must pay all tuition, fees and expenses ex-penses from his monthly check from VA. The veteran will receive his monthly allowance some time after af-ter the end of each month of training. He is not paid in advance. ad-vance. Before VA can pay him for the month's training just completed , it must get a certification, certifi-cation, signed by the veteran land his school, that he was actually ac-tually taking his course during that month. Normally, a veteran's check should go out within 20 days after VA gets that certification. For these reasons, VA advises veterans to have enough money jto take care of their expenses for at least the first two months, i as it will be approximately two months after they enter training before they receive their first check from, VA. Rates of payments to veterans j training in schools do not change lunless the number of dependents depend-ents changes. Under the law, monthly allowances for on-the-job and on-the-farm trainees will jbe reduced every four months, 'as the veteran progresses in his training program. iNext week: More on payments, pay-ments, and, choosing a school).- |