| Show no insurance refund due some vets veterans administration said today that veterans with service connected disabilities rated 60 to 60 percent and who have one or more dependents will relieve additional dit ional allowances for their dependents pen dents by virtue of a recently enacted law previously only veterans rated 60 per cent and up were entitled to dependency allowances the group r rated 50 to 60 percent was made eai eligible gible by public law of the congress approved october 10 and effective vac dac I 1 monthly additional amounts for veterans disabled in wartime based on percent disability are wife alone 21 wife and one child 35 wife and two children wife and three or more children 56 one child no wife 14 two children 2450 three or more children 35 one dependent parent 1750 and two dependent parents 35 of these bm amounts the veteran relieves rec ieves the percentage his disability rating bears to the total A veteran with a 50 percent rating for example would relieve half of the above rates veterans entitled to compensation for disabilities incurred iii a peacetime service relieve so 80 percent of the applicable wartime amount in order to qualify for dependency allowances the veteran must submit proof of relationship such as marriage and birth records chero his dependents are arc on record with VA V A on december 1 1949 and the necessary evidence of relationship and dependency is furnished within 5 months from that rate the award will vill be made effective and retroactive to dec 1 VA V A said otherwise the effective date will be the date the evidence is relieved reci eved for this reason the VA V A urged veterans clip ibe for this in crease to file claim for i it with 1 their state VA V A regional affife listi y their r dependents be before fore december Decem 1 veterans in training under public law 16 of or the GI bill 1 and rec ving leving subsistence subs istance allowances dependents deper dents may however elect to accept payment for dependents under whichever law provides the greater amount VA V A said VA V A is currently writing veterans rated between 50 and CO 60 percent advis hig them of their possible entitlement tit to dependency allowances it in estimated that some veterans may qualify for dependency allowances under the new provision at a fist year cost of 01 about |
