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Show 1 ADDITIONAL i I RULING ON i I REINSTATEMENT m A series of decisions issued by the in . Olroctor of tho bureau of war risk W Insurance with. tho approval of the Kt&r secretary of the treasury provides Lp more liberal conditions for rein F ntatoineut of lapsed or canceled in-suranco. in-suranco. " j f , The provisions of 'treasury decision " . No. 47, allowing eighteen months r frdm tho date of dlschurgo for reln- w statement upon payment of only (wo tojk months prcmluu on the amount of IB insurance to bo reinstated, are ro- BE tallied. That decision Is liberalized, MB however, by a new provision that B lnen ollt ' service aro permitted to BH rulnstato by merely paying the two B months premiums without making a BB statcent as to health at anj, time WU within three calendar months follow-&V follow-&V lug tho month of discharge. MB After tho thrco months following mJk; tho dato of discharge have elapsed wW a statement from tho,nppllcnnt to tho aB - effect that ho Is in as good health Wm as at tho date of dlschargd or at tho KtB expiration of tho grace period, whlch- ftflK evor is tho later date, will bo ro- Qj i UUlrcd together with a written ap- BjB plication for reinstatement and tho HI tender of two months pdemiuins on SJ tho amount of Insurance ho wishes Bfi p to reinstate. BE In order to glvo all former service jBf men whose insurance hnu lapsed or Wk. been canceled a fair chanco to rein- BJL state their insurance, including men 7V who havo been out of tho service V ' elgthoen months or moro, and who M . are therefore barred from rolnstato- JM nient under tho former ruling, u spe- clal blanket ruling Is made which alii al-ii laws all ex-sorvfeo men to reinstate IB their Insuranco bofore Decomber 31, B 1S19, provided that each applicant Bj. Is in as good health as at dato of BJ dlschnrgo or at expiration of tho H grace period, whichever is the later H date, and so, states in his application. H Of courso it Is necessary that he ton- BJ dor tho two months premiums on tho H amount of insurance he wishes to Hj reinstate. BJ Sorvlco men. who reinstated their Bj insurance by puyment, of all back I premiums prior to July 25, 1019, 'H when tho decision requiring pay-Bj pay-Bj uient of only two months' premiums H went Into effect upon written nppll-H nppll-H cation to tho buroau may havo any I j premiums paid in excess of two np-iBT np-iBT piled toward the payment of future Hv promlums. For examplo If after, a policy had lapsed for six months, u m 'man reinstated and paid six months premiums instead of two, ho may soil so-il euro credit for four months prom-1 prom-1 turns, IE The provisions for reinstatement ' do not' protect a mant until ho nq- IB tually reinstates. If ho waits hu ffi may not bo in as good health as ho was at tho time of discharge and K consequently may not bo ablo to bo- B euro reinstatement. H Don't put off reinstatement. Do B it now, LB BbS Bf "OliMito. . |