Show reductions I 1 IN IN WAR VET PENSIONS possibility feasibility of one third of widows and orphans now receiving death compensation being cut from pension rolls pensions reduced for spanish war vets veto the now new veterans regulations authorized under the economy act or of march 20 1933 were signed by president roosevelt on march 31 they are aie designed to cut disabled veterans benefits including widows and other dependents by about a year this sum musts must be taken irom from the approximate which remains of the veterans appropriation previously planned for 1934 alter after adjusted compensation and civil war pension payments are deducted I 1 reducing cIng this by 1 cuts disabled benefits I 1 about 63 per cent the theory that the government should make an effort to lo campen sato bate veterans and widows tor for world war disability or death Is now a thing ot of the past campensa Com pensa penso tion has ceased to exist all world war monetary benefits outside of emergency officers retirement are known as pensions and the recipients will be called pensioners among other things the new veterans regulations impose the following restrictive changes in laws and regulations which havu havie heretofore existed wipes out compensation tor for world war veterans permanently crippled by battle wounds akpu lations and diseases contracted in the service and substitutes peni blons at a 20 per cent less rate than the compensation which these disabled have been receiving there will be but five ratings and C aln d on cm pee pace roar four reductions IN SIGHT IN WAR YET VET PENSIONS continued from rare pare onto one payment bases basea for service con disability 10 per cent 8 a month 26 25 per cent 10 40 a month 76 75 per cont cent 60 a month and tier per cent aso sa a month family allowances low owan ances coa for crippled veterans with dependents ica indents are eliminated single veterans arach w without tho u t dependents will ila have yo their pension cut to 15 16 a month while in hospital or homo home the now new regulations also scrap the old rating table which was based on impairment in prewar pre war occupation the now new table la is based on art the average impairment caused by the disability this will cut the service connected disability pay by an estimated ft a your year and Is to the 20 per cent service connected cut referred to the new regulations wipe out ant all payments for or temporary disability and non service free hospitalize tion for or temporary disability hereafter no payments pay menta will ho be made for or any disability other than permanent whether war connected or not restricts service connected dis ability by presumption to one year after discharge tills this and other re may reduce the world war veterans now receiving for or service connected war disability to about one half that number through restriction on proof of 0 service connected death in presumptive sump tive cases possibly one third of the widows and orphans now receiving cei vang death compensation will be cut from the will not be ba paid pensions no pension Is PI provided 0 for widows and orphans tor for aion connected world war benth spanish war widows of at tills clans alicas will their pon iona alons re from 30 to 15 16 a month the world war disability allow anci of 40 a month for or non fron service connected permanent disability which mr hoover initiated la Is IvI peti out 11 in its placer place pen slona payable only it tile tho disability la Is permanent and total there are world war veterans of this class who have been receiving disability allowance the who mhd have been receiving disability will be removed from the rolls and re coave nothing this should save about one hundred million dollars a year taase non pension pan slona FJ will contain a need clause provid ing that no payments pay menta menil shall be mado to a single man without dependents pen dents tg who has an income of 1001 1000 or it if married and with a dependents 0 pen dents dento of 2500 ninety days service required tile tho non service pensions ot of spanish war veterans are wiped out and those these veterans cases placed under tile the same regulations as the world war veterans in other words spanish war veterans will receive such pensions only when totally and permanently disabled these will be 20 a month irio nth the compulsory spanish war veterans pons pensions form at ago age 02 62 are sot set at 46 G a month arid and domi domiciliary cillar Y cure care for all veterans are restricted to veterans administration hospitals arid and homes henceforth to be known na its veterans administration facilities where both services will bo be provided service connected cases will be admitted as heretofore but non service connected ad pittances mit will be confined to tot ret araus with permanent disability tuberculosis or disease who anro unable to earn a living and who are without means of ninety days ser service irice required this restriction upon hospit altz aaion will reduce the number of men hospitalized As aa vacancies oc oa cur veterans vet erana will be removed from hospitals and only veterans ve torana facil atles will be used it ja ia not known yot yet whether any of the 62 veterans hospitals will bo be closed only time can determine this eligibility of disabled emergency officers of the world war retirement restricted to disabilities directly 11 connected with service through a causative factor arising out of duty ditty it in military service it Is estimated this will reduce the number on the rolls rolla from about to 2000 veterans working tor for tho the government cannot receive pensions unless for or battle casualties all others will have their pensions withheld employed Emp loyes of the veterans administration who receive pensions cannot hold positions where they may award monetary benefits to other veterans the amount of at pensions received by anybody will be supplied any one upon inquiry InQ only 60 50 per cent ot at the pensions pension allowed under the new regulations regulation s may be ba paid to veterans residing oli talde the united states except those living in the canal zone and alaska the only class claas 0 of persons person whose hose pensions are not cut under tinder the regulations regula tlona are the widows and orphans of veterans vet erana whose death la Is directly connected with service 1 the amount of burial allowance is a reduced to 76 75 A flag will be provided in all cases |