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Show Veterans News Don't get excited if you discover dis-cover that another veteran has the same number as you on the acknowledgement card from the Veterans Administration that the VA has received your application for your special National Service Life Insurance dividend. You and 99 other World War 11 veterans who applied for the special dividend have been assigned as-signed the same number, VA explains. This is the "application "applica-tion for dividend" number assigned as-signed you, not your insurance policy number. The application number, which is stamped by VA on both the application form they retain and on the acknowledgement 'fed returned to the applicant, is in two parts. This is the number num-ber stamped in the upper left-hand left-hand corner (on the address side) of the acknowledgement card you have received or will receive. The number appearing to the right consists of - two digits preceded pre-ceded by the letter "A". This number remains the same for each group of .J.,000,000 cards. The designation "A05", therefore, there-fore, indicates that the application applica-tion is among the fifth million cards processed. . The number to the left, composed com-posed of four digits, is a batch number, identifying each batch of 100 cards within the one mil- lion group... Thus, the number "0247 AOa" indicates that the application is in the 247th batch of the fifth million cards processed. pro-cessed. All the applications in each batch of 100 cards bear identical identi-cal numbers. Use this number, if it becomes necessary to wnte the VA concerning your dividend But, says VA, if you filed an application ap-plication and-are sure you sign ed it - unless the VA writes you don't write about the dividend before next July or until the VA has announced all dividend checks have been mailed out. Mailing of the checks is not scheduled to begin before late January, 1950. The VA expects to mail out approximately 200,-000 200,-000 each day, and hopes to complete com-plete the mailing by July ot 1950. Veterans who have not yet filed their applications' for the special dividend are urged by the VA to' include their service serial number, and be sure their signatures are on the blanks. More than 202,000 World War 11 veterans by June 1 had either exhausted their entitlement to GI Bill training, or had completed com-pleted their Public La 16 traiiv ing (for disabled : veterns) and were declared rehabilitated, VA said. , , ii The number of World War 11 veterans training on the job under the GI Bill and Public Law 16 dropped to 403,135 on June 1-a 1-a 45 percent decrease from the 720,000 peak reached in January, 1947. World War 11 veterans between be-tween 25 "and 34 years of age had a median income of $2,401 in 1947, compared with $2,585 for nonveterans in the- same age group, according to a recent Census Bureau study. |