Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1879 — ARREARS OF PENSIONS. [ARTICLE]

ARREARS OF PENSIONS.

Important Information Washi gton* March 31.—Senators and members as Congress, and persons of all grades of official lif , are receiving quantities of letters of inquiry as to when payment of arrears of pensions was to commence. Applications have been coining in with gi <*at rapidity since the bill passed, and clerks have been at work examining them. iSoms are all ready for payment, and each day sees approval of more. In ans ver to an inquiry today, Commissioner Bentley eaid he hoped to begin paying claims under t he arrears bill about the 10th of April and continue to pay them from that dkte on as fast as they were examine ! and approved. These claims will be paid by a check on the Treasury of the United States, payablegjto the order of the pensioner himself and will be sent to the post-office ad-’

dress of the pensioner by mail No attorney or claim agent will be reeog nized in the matter No applications under the bill will bo received thro’ a claim agent, and the pensioner reoeiving the money is prohibited by the expressed provision of the law from paying any portion of it to an attorney or claim agent. Pensioners in all paris are beiug imposed unori by claim agents who represent that theserviees.of an experienced attorney is necessary to obtain this money AH that is necessary is to send to the Pension Office or the nearest pension agent for btanks, and after filling them out return them to the Commissioner ot Pensions at Washington.. • Ww-