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Show Veterans' Checks Held Up for Correct Answers Veterans in the Delta area who have not received Veterans Administration Admin-istration subsistance checks, or who have received reduced checks that they believe to be unjustified, this month are advised to report to the VA immediately, Dr. Calvin S. Smith, Chief of Vocational Rehabil-ation Rehabil-ation and Education for the VA in Utah, today. According to word received from the regional office in Salt Lake City, about one-half of all Utah veterans mistakenly included the amount of their subsistance in the reports of their earnings for the last three-month period as required by the VA in order to enforce recent re-cent Congressional legislation establishing es-tablishing total ceilings of $200 for married vets and $175 for single men. While it is believed that less than ' 1,000 Utah veterans will be per-', per-', manently affected by the results of the survey, more than 5,000 checks have been either held up completely or paid in reduced a-mounts a-mounts until the VA can secure the proper figures from the veterans veter-ans involved. In all cases where the V A suspects that subsistance figures have been wrongly includ-d includ-d in reports, the veterans are being be-ing requested by mail to file again. Those veterans in job-training programs or attending school, who believe that they mistakenly included in-cluded susistance figures, can expedite ex-pedite their cases by immediately sending a note to that effect to the Veterans Administration, Regional Office, 1710 South Redwood Road, Salt Lake City. In addition to the cases listed in error above, the V A also points out that several hundred Utah vets failed to submit reports at all by the deadline of November 5, as required re-quired by law. In such cases the VA can do nothing but withhold checks until such reports are received. re-ceived. The V A emphasized the fact that all Utah vets who submitted correct cor-rect reports have been paid on time. |