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Show sieves EDITOR'S NOTE: This newspaper, through special arrangement with the Washington Bureau of Western Newspaper News-paper Union at 1616 Eye Street, N. W.t Washington, D.C., is able to bring readers read-ers this weekly column on problems of the veteran and serviceman and his family. fam-ily. Questions may be addressed to the above Bureau and they will be answered in a subsequent column No replies can be made direct by mail, but only in the column which will appear in this newspaper news-paper regularly. VA Receives Carload Of Mail Daily From Vets A total of 2,100,000 veterans of World War II are now making premium pre-mium payments on National Service Serv-ice Life insurance by direct mail to the Veterans administration. This total does not include premiums premi-ums paid by deductions from benefit payments. A total of 897,214 letters concerning concern-ing insurance were received by the VA through February and March covering all categories of questions such as refunds, conversions, reinstatements re-instatements and status of accounts, and of this number the VA during the 8 weeks, answered a total of 783,055 of these letters. Because of ( this tremendous volume of mail there were some 266,000 letters unanswered un-answered and because so many thousands of the letters are not accompanied by proper identification, identifica-tion, it has been impossible to post accounts currently. I Questions and Answers Q. I was Inducted into the army In 1942 and was discharged Z months and 12 days later on a disability discharge. I have tried to get com- pensation, but the VA claims it has been delayed because of insufficient insuf-ficient records. I then filed a claim for such to clear my records. In 1939, prior to my induction I had internal in-ternal hemorrhages from both kidneys, kid-neys, but I was passed as physically physical-ly fit in 1941 by army doctors. On entering service my kidneys were weakened more by hurting them again for which I was discharged. Now the question is, am I entitled to this compensation? I signed up on the 14th of January and have been out of work 3 months. J. D. C. Superior, Wis. A. Cannot tell from your letter whether you are attempting to get a disability pension or unemployment unemploy-ment compensation. From the facts given, you may be entitled to disability disabil-ity compensation and your only recourse re-course is to apply again or take an appeal. As for readjustment allowance, allow-ance, are you able to work? The laws says you must be able to work and available for suitable work; that you must not have left suitable work voluntarily -and without good cause and you must have applied for suitable work. Suggest you ask the USES office for all details. Q. How old will they take a man In the occupation army? A man in service 10 months, how can he draw this $20 per week? J. D., Corydon, Ind. A. Enlistment age limits are 17 through 34. If you are unemployed and were discharged under conditions condi-tions other than dishonorable you can apply for unemployment compensation com-pensation at your nearest office of U. S. Employment service and you may obtain up to $20 per week, for not more than 52 weeks under certain cer-tain conditions. Q. I was discharged from ASF regional hospital, Ft. McClellan, Ala. i November 6, 1945, with a disability dis-ability discharge on account of back trouble and I want to know if I can get into the merchant marines. Was only in the army two months and the disability was not from service. C. V. R., Charlottesville, Va. A. Suggest your best answer can be obtained by applying to the nearest near-est merchant marines recruiting office of-fice and see if they will take you. Q. I am a veteran of World War I in service six months, not overseas. over-seas. Just ready to go when Armistice Armis-tice was signed. Could I get hospital hos-pital service free? Also do all war veterans get a pension after they are 60 or 65 years old? F. S., Peca-tonica, Peca-tonica, 111. A. You probably are eligible for hospital service free if you are unable un-able to pay for it. World War I veterans obtained a bonus. There Is no pension. O. My son will be In the navy two years in June. He is a storekeeper store-keeper 3c and was overseas 19 months. Could you tell me when he will be eligible for discharge? Mrs. B. R., Milton, Fa. A. Ordinarily he likely would be eligible to apply for discharge by June 30. However, he may be held up for a short time since storekeepers storekeep-ers and some other classifications rate a higher point score. Q. My husband has an honorable discharge since December 7, 1945. How does the G.I. Bill work? We would like to have $2,000. How much interest does it take and how do we pay it back? We are planning to build a home, since they are hard to rent. A Good Reader, Union, Mo. A. Would suggest your husband go to a bank or other lending institution in-stitution which makes G.I. loans and they will give him all details and inform him as to his eligibility since in the final analysis, the bank must approve the loan. The loan carries t per cent interest. |