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Show VETERANS-here's VETERANS-here's your answers Q Are 01 Dili educational assistance allowance benefits veterans receive from VA taxable? tax-able? A No. The Internal Revenue Reven-ue Service does n.l consider tiie.se benefits income for tax purposes. Q--l'm a 7-1 year old veteran veter-an on VA pension rolls. Is it true, as I have heard, that I will not receive an income questionnaire this November? A It's true. You will receive re-ceive information with your November pension check ex-1 plaining that pensioners 72 years old and older who have been on the rolls during two consecutive years are exempt from filing the questionnaires. Q How much truth is there to criticism that VA hospitals are so crowded with dying old men and old alcoholics that bed space is not available for Vietnam veterans? i A None. Veterans with service ser-vice connected disabilities r have first call on VA medical - care, and plenty -of hospital . beds are available. A recent . chock revealed about 81,000 ' veterans wer0 occupying hospital hos-pital beds, about 10 percent of them Vietnam Era veterans. Q I am a veteran's widow -V " drawing VA pension. Would state welfare benefits reduce my pension? A No. VA does not consider benefits from public or private welfare organizations as income in-come for purposes of computing comput-ing pension. Q As a veteran attending college under the GI Bill, I i wonder why VA does not pay for all my educational expenses? ex-penses? A Like the World War II and Korean Conflict GI Bills the current GI Bill is intended as educational assistance, rather than a ' total subsidy thru four years of college. Vet-erans Vet-erans who went to school after World War II often had to sup-plement sup-plement their educational allowances al-lowances just as the majority of all well motivated college students do. Q-rMaw do I get admitted to a Veterans Administration hospital? ' A Apply in person to the VA hospital nearest your home taking with you a copy of your military separation papers. pa-pers. If unable to visit the nearest hospital, a private physician may request by phone admittance for a veteran-patient, being prepared to advise admission authority as to military data and the need for hospital care. |