Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 16, Number 25, DeMotte, Jasper County, 3 May 1946 — Veterans SERVICE BUREAU [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Veterans SERVICE BUREAU

EDITOR’S NOTE: Thu newspaper, through ipecial arrangement with the Washington Bureau of Western Newtpaper Union at 1616 Eye Street, N. IP., Washington, it able to bring readies this weekly column on problems of the veteran and serviceman and his family. Questions may be addressed to the above Bureau and they will be answered in a subsequent column. No replies can be made direct by mail, but only in the column which will appear in this new * paper regularly. Credit for Army Schools The Veterans' administration is completing arrangements with high schools, colleges and universities so that veterans may be given academic credit on diplomas and degrees for study and technical experience acquired during wartime service in the armed forces. For this purpose VA is using as a guide a compendium of hundreds of educational and training studies given by the armed forces during the war compiled by the American Council on Education. • School authorities may consult this guide and obtain the recommended evaluation of courses taken from the U. S. Armed Forces institute, or at one of the four overseas Army Study centers, or in any of the service technical schools, civil affairs training courses, etc. For instance, a veteran who studied the history of philosophy at Biarritz American university in Biarritz, France, and is credited on his AGO form 100 with completion of the course, would be given by the guide's recommendation, 24 hours toward a baccalaureate degree. In many instances sufficient credits have been earned so that a veteran forced to leave high school to enter the service, finds he may receive a high school diploma upon his return.

Questions and Answers Q. My ton received his discharge in September and the first six months In the army I didn’t get my allotment or that for two minor children, one 13 and the other 8. Is there any way 1 can get this money? —C. E. J.. Halifax. N. C. A. An allotment to parents is not compulsory and you could get it only if the amount was deducted from your son’s pay. If the two minor children are your son’s children they are entitled to the allotment which every serviceman is required to pay his dependent family. Suggest you write to Chief Finance Officer, Allotment Branch, Adjutant General’s office, War Department, Washington, D. C., giving son's name, serial number and all other data. Q., My cousin was killed in the Battle of the Bulge, December 25, 1944. I would like to know in what cemetery and In what town and country he is buried.—D. D., Pottsville, Pa. A. Write to the Office of the Quartermaster General, Graves registration, War Department, Washington 25, D. C., giving the veteran’s name and serial number. Q. I have a son who was inducted Into the army in January, 1943, and was discharged the following March, 1943. Is he entitled to musteringont pay and the G.I. Bill benefits?— Mrs. E. M. P„ Decatur, Neb. A. He is probably entitled to S2OO mustering-out pay if he served 60 days in active service. He is not entitled to G.I. benefits unless he received a disability discharge, for this requires 90 days active service. Q. I am the mother of a boy killed In action in 1944. He made me beneficiary for his Insurance. I am 50 years old and get $52.80 monthly. Will I ever get any more monthly, and how soon?—Mrs. H. G„ Sharon, Kan. A. If the insurance is National Service Life and has not been converted there are two options for payment: (a) If the beneficiary is under 30 years of age at the date of death of the insured, payments are made in 240 equal monthly installments at the rate of $5 51 for each SI,OOO of insurance. However, the beneficiary maj elect to have the insurance payable In monthly installments as a refund life income, payable for a definite period and continuing throughout the life of the first beneficiary and in event of death, of the flfst beneficiary the remaining installments, if any, paid to the second beneficiary of, (b) If the beneficiary is 30 or more years of age payments are made in equal monthly installments throughout the remaining lifetime of such beneficiary with the proviso that such monthly Installments shall be payable for 120 months certain If you are not satisfied with your installments, suggest you write to Insurance Department, Veterans’ Administration, at your regional office in Kansas City. Q. My brother was killed In action In Germany, leaving a wife and one child. Several months ago her Insurance checks,, stopped coming. We have written to find out why but have been unable to do so. Can you help uat—Mrs. J. H. R., Riddle, Ore. A. The only suggestion I can make is that you contact, personally if possible, your nearest Veterans’ administration regional offices, at the Veterans’ hospital at Portland, and tell tnem the whole story and case history.