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Show Income Questionnaire Aid 0ffeiedT . Veterans Dependants, A special field trip to southern south-ern and central Utah the first week In January for the purpose pur-pose of aiding veterans, widows, and dependent parents in filling out annual income questionnaires question-naires In connection with pensions, pen-sions, was announced today by the VA regional office in Salt Lake City, Utah. These annual income questionnaires ques-tionnaires are received by thousands thous-ands of Utah veterans and dependents de-pendents with their benefit checks about January 1 of each year, and must be properly completed com-pleted and returned to the Veterans Vet-erans Administration during January Jan-uary to avoid stopping payments. Although Instructions accom-accompany accom-accompany the forms, the problem prob-lem of what constitutes Income and what can be exempted, can become very complicated, and each 'car hundreds of awards have to be stopped while the VA makes follow-up Inquiries. Under present legislation governing govern-ing these cases, the law Imposes a $1400 yearly Income limitation on veterans and widows without with-out dependents, and a $2700 yearly limitation on those with dependents. These limitations apply only to non-service connected con-nected cases, and there are no income in-come restrictions for veterans with service-connected disabilities disabili-ties or for widows and children of servicemen who died In the service ser-vice or from service-connected conditions.. In addition to Income question-1 naires, the VA official wui also be prepares: to handle all types of inquiries concerning veterans' affairs. According to the announcement, announce-ment, Thomas R. Buttrey, contact con-tact specialist from the Salt Lake J regional office, will b ..' ' c : dar City employment office Jan. 4, 1960 from c:30 a. rr. until 5 p. m. |