Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1908 — MORE MONEY TO WIDOWS. [ARTICLE]

MORE MONEY TO WIDOWS.

All Pensioners Receiving Less Than 912 a Month Will Receive Increase Dating from April 19. Washington, April 22.—The new pension act, which went into effect on April 19, gives to the 201,051 widows and other pensioners an increase of $4 a month. All pensioners getting less than sl2 will receive that amount beginning April 19, without the necessity of putting in new claims. The increase will act automatically. In addition to the increase of $9,650,448 in the amount of the pension roll, it is estimated that $2,592,000 in additional claims will be filed during the coming year on account of the provisions in the new act granting a pension of sl2 to widows of officers and enlisted men who served ninety days or more in the army or navy during the civil war. The new act will give an increase to one widow of a soljdier in the war of 1812, to 183,696 civil war pensioners under the general act, 7,097 Mexican war beneficiaries, and to 3,171 widows of participants in the Indian wars. The appropriation asked of Congress this year is over $162,000,000 and is $6,000,000 more than the appropriation of 1893, which was the largest ever made.