Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 286, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1912 — PENSION CHECKS WILL COME DIRECT [ARTICLE]

PENSION CHECKS WILL COME DIRECT

Yew Plan For Payment of Veterans and Widows Will Do Away With Quarterly Applications. - The veterans Pf the civil war have been informed that hereafter they will receive their pension checks 'direct from Washington, D. C., and they can be cashed at any bank like an ordinary check. They must, however, be endorsed by the pensioner and two witnesses, to whom the pensionei must show that he is the Tightful owner of the check and that, his certificate number is the same as the one on the check. With no further red tape he will receive his money. The new plan of paying pensions will be handier alt around. It takes the work entirely out of the hands of pension agents, who formerly executed * the vouchers received by the soldiers. The new method will also save the pensioner trouble, as all 'he will be forced to do will be to go to the bank with tils check and certificate, endorse his check and have two witnesses do the same. Under the old method a trip to the pension agent was necessary. Heretofore the vouchers have been sent from Indianapolis, Ind., Lexington. Ky., and Columbus, Ohio, but they will all come from Washington in the future. Pensions wili be sent to the last known address. If a pensioner changes his address he should notify Washington, giving his former address and his new one. Otherwise his pension will be sent to the old address.