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Show VETERANS here's your answers Q--I'm the wife of a World War II veteran who named his mother as beneficiary on his $10,000 National Service Life Insurance In-surance policy. Can the Veterans Administration designate me as beneficiary if I request it? A--No. Only the veteran may change his beneficiary. Q-As a recently discharged veteran with a service-connected service-connected disability, I'd like to attend college under the Veterans Administration's vocational rehabilitation program. I have a wife arid child as dependents, and wonder what benefits I'd be entitled to? A-Under current rates, you would receive your tuition, fees, books and supplies, plus a $304 monthly allowance check, if you attend full time. Q-I'm a veteran in a state which has no burial space left its national cemetery. Will the Veterans Administration pay anything toward the cost of a burial plot in a private cemetery? A-Yes. Under a 1973 law, VA is allowed to pay up to $150 in plot and interment costs of veterans not buried in national cememteries. |