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Show Bill Liberalizes Veterans Insurance Otis L. Burton, of the Veterans Veter-ans Administration contact office of-fice in the Shurtleff Hotel, today to-day called attention to the fact that the House of Representatives Representa-tives last week passed the liberalized liber-alized G. I, Insurance bill long promised by the VA. Maior provisions of the bill provide for lump sum payments to beneficiaries, actual disability disabil-ity payments to policy holders in addition to waiver of premiums, prem-iums, removal of restrictions concerning beneficiaries, and other changes as promised by General Bradley months ago. Mr. Burton points out that this legislation is expected to pass the Senate and become law any day now, and that it removes the last possible objections to National Na-tional Service Life Insurance. "The new law, in conjunction with the recent ruling allowing veterans to reinstate lapsed policies, pol-icies, regardless of length of time, by merely filing a form and sending in only two premiums, prem-iums, is expected to lead to a rush for conversions and r6in-statements," r6in-statements," Mr. Burton said. As General Bradley put it recently: rec-ently: "Insurance is to the individual indi-vidual what the armed forces are to the nation. Each furnishes indisnensible prote ction for which adequate provision must be made in advance. To wait until un-til something happens is just too late." |