Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1893 — NEW PENSION ORDER. [ARTICLE]

NEW PENSION ORDER.

Plans to Simplify Adjudication of Claims Under the Act of 1890, Commissioner of Pensions Lochren, Thursday, at Washington, issued the following important order simplifying the practice of the bureau in the adjudication claims under the famous act of June 27. 1890: Pension certificates issued under the second section of the act of June 27, 1890, will no longer specify particular disabilities. In such certificates, where the maximum rating of 112 per month is allowed, the certificate will state that it is for “inability to earn a support by manual labor.’’ Where less than the maximum rating iS allowed the certificate will state that it is for “partial Inability to earn a support by annual labor.” Whenever, In case of a pension granted under said section, at less than the maximum rating, a higher rating is subsequently sought, the application for such higher rating shall ba considered an 1 treated as a claim for increase, and not ns a claim because of a new disability, and the increase, if allowed, will commence from the date of the medical examination showing the increased disability.