The National tribune., 1899-06-29
PENSION POINTERS.
Inquiries Answered ard Sugges=
tiOns Made.

G.. r. B., Wdtertolrn, ". UT woult
probably depend on the character and eX
tent of bicycle riding whether the person
drawing $50 per month for inability 10 per
form any manual labor would be regarded
as evidently not entitled TO the rating
granted. An invalid pensioners rating is
determined by the general average of his
condition; he cannot obtain higher rate
for period during which he required the
regular personal aid and attendance of
another person, through spell of sickness,
and a less rate for other periods. The de-
gree of disabiement emitting TO the $50 or
S12 ratings must be permanent. 1t is
possible that person requiring assistance
in putting Oh his coat would be regarded as
entitled to the $50 rating.
T. p, Charleston, IH-Invalid pension
under the general law commences from dis
charge, If the particular disability was
formally claimed on before July l, 1880.
If claim Oh the particular stability was not
filed until after June 80, 1880, the pension
thereon would commence only from the date
of filing of the application.
W. III. F., Soldiers Home, Washington,
ID. C.-See reply to 7. p, above. II the
rating allowed under Your general law
claim, covering the period you have been
drawing under the act of 1890, should be
greater than YOUR rate under the act of 1890.
you would be entitled TO the difference
You are at liberty TO seek pension by special
act at any time you think it would be of
benefit 10 you.
III. Mt is not clear from your state
ment Just what are the facts in Your case
If, through error, you have not received all
the pension due you on the original allow
ance, you can obtain the balance due on
filing formal application for arrears or re-
rating. Ii you have lately had a new
allowance going back over part of the
period or the entire period covered by your
original allowance, it is probable that the
nd fhxar ,11n,t-
emitting you to an additional 81 per month
for the period over which you have hereto
fore received 81 per month.
A. J., Lake Como, Pd.-It is believed
that III many cases invalid pensioners re-
ceiving pension for amputation of arm are
practically entitled to the $50 rating al
lowed by the act of July IA, 1892, for dis
ability requiring frequent and periodical
aid and attendance of another person. The
decisions are against this view, even where
the arm is amputated at the shoulder Joint.
In rejected claim for increase on the pen
stoned disability, the appeal to the Secre-
tary of the Interior should be made within
three months after rejection.
Redder.-f it can be demonstrated
that the degree of disablement from a BODY
wound has been practically uniform over
the entire penSioned period, the pension can
bererated back toconform to present ratings.
You are drawing third-grade rating, S24,
Tor disability equal in degree to loss of "a
hand or foot. Unless there has been a
question as to the character and extent of
your wound, it would not seem that the
location of the bullet by X rays can have
any effect one way or the other.
No 3l.-SoldierS and sailors serving in
the army and navy since the war of the re-
belllon, including those serving in the
Spanish war, are entitled to pension under
the general law for disability incurred in
the service and line of duty The rates
allowed range from Sc to S1O0 per month
NJ. H., Virginia, Neb.-It is held by the
present Administration that to be entitled
to pension under the act of June 81, 1890,
the soldier must have an honorable dis
charge from each term of enlistment con-
tracted during the period of the war of the
rebellion.
Z. j. r., Barron COUNTY, Visit is
pretty late in the day to set up a claim for
increase OF pension on disability not COW
cred by the pension certificate, under the
general law, with any hope of securing
favorable consideration; unless there is a
record of the disability claimed on. You
could not get pension on typhoid fever"
You would have toshow the origin and con-
tinuance, to present time, of recognized re-
suits of typhoid fever, and it is of these, not
typhoid fever, that you would require a
record or strong medical evidence showing
the existence of the alleged disabilities in
the service or at discharge
s. NJ, National Military Home, Kan
II the soldier received an honorable dis
charge, his pension title under the act of
1870 IS not affected by the fact that he was
court-martlaled during his term of service.
He would identified under the general law,
even Ii his discharge was not honorable.