Show millions of dollars for disabled veterans fifty five thousand world war veterans and their dependents had received additional benefits approximating twenty nine millions of dollar under the provisions of the reed johnson bill sponsored by the american legion and its amendments up dp to the beginning of the year 1926 according to advises advices from legion service officials in washington approximately of the persons benefiting under the law had bad never before received compensation from the government in any form and the others olbers profited on account of increased payments hundreds of thousands of cases that were lying untouched in the veterans bureau owing to the inadequacy of the law previous to the passage of the reed johnson bill on june 7 1924 are now being reviewed veterans or their dependents have already benefited as follows tubercular veterans were awarded in compensation mentally incompetent veterans were co compensated apen at a cost of dependents of disabled veterans numbering received additional allowances low ances and dependents of dead veterans received increased allowances low ances amounting to for the care of veterans and nearly a million dollars in compensation was awarded to WO veterans suffering from so called wilful misconduct diseases |