Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 273, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1914 — Post office Employes to Be Entitled to Disability Pay [ARTICLE]

Post office Employes to Be Entitled to Disability Pay

Positpffice including clerk®, carriers and iaiJw|ay clerks, will receive full pay for periods up to one year of disability caused by injuries sustained in the perform'ance of their duties. The postmaster is authorized to employ in the place of an injured employe a substitute at the same salary received by the injured man and to pay him during his time of service. After’one year the injured man will receive half pay for another twelve months if they are disabled for that length of time.

Although this law was passed last March it had not been approved and sent out until last week and postmasters are now receiving circulars giving the law in detail and the method of procedure to secure indemnity. To get hds pay an injured employe muftt apply for it in periods of thirty days. Each application must be accompanied by a sworn statement from a physician setting out the injuries and if the po tmaster has any doubts about the Character and extent of the injury he can report to the postoffice department and the employe will be compiled toSubmitat his expense to an examination by a physician appointed by the government In addition there is a death benefit of $2,000 to be paid the dependent relatives of an employe wheie death occurs within one year as a, result of injuries sustained in «the performance of duty.