Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1918 — GET INCREASES IN PENSIONS [ARTICLE]

GET INCREASES IN PENSIONS

Special Force Necessary to Handle the Work. Washington, June 15. —It has become necessary to organizze a special force for the pension office to handle the wor kof increasing the allotments to civil war veterans under the act of congress recently signed by’ the President. This law becomes effective too late to include the increases in the checks for July 4, but they will be added to the next quarterly payment. The act ,provides S3O a month for soldiers and sailors of any age who served ninety’ days and less than six months in- the civil war anu was honorably discharged. . Those who are seventy-two years old or over and served six months will receive $32 a month; one year, s3.> a month; one and a half years, S3B a month, and two years or over, S4O a month. Pensioners now on the rolls*under act of May 11, 1912, will get this increase of pension without application on their part. Soldiers and sailbrS of the civil war pensioned at lower .rates tinder some law other than the act of May 11, 1912, must file application under the act to receive the benefits of the new law. »