The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1904-07-28
PENSION POINTERS.
Inquiries Answered and Suggestion
Made.

II. R.-As you were not the wife of
your soldier husband while he was in the
army, you cannot have your pension re-
stored under the Act of Congress of Feb.
%. 1908.
c.. E. B.-The evidence now on file in
the Pension Office as to your age is the
age given when you enlisted; that which
you gave when you applied for pension.
and your statement upon affidavits made
by you in your own claim or in that of
your comrades.
X. B.-The average time after medical
examination for the adjudication of a
claim for increase of pension is about six
months. The Pension Bureau always mott
fes the claimant of its action.
Cumberland.-If pensioner dissipates
his pension money and does not provide
for his family, they may apply to the court
for the appointment of a committee to re-
ceive his pension and to use it for his and
their legitimate needs.
Sec 47OS r. S.-"Any widow who was
the lawful wife of an officer or an enlisted
man in the army, navy or marine corps OF
the United States whose name has been or
shall hereafter be placed on the pension
ROLL because of her husbands death as the
result of wound or injury received or dis
ease contracted in such service, and whose
name has been, or shall hereafter be, drop
ped from the pension roll by reason of her
marriage to any other person who has
since died, or from whom she has been
divorced upon her own application, and
who is without means of support other
than her daily labor, shall be entitled to
have her name again placed on the pension
roll"
Orchards-There is no general law to
remove charge of desertion, and an honor
able discharge is indispensable to a pen
sionable status.
c. c. B.. Ind-If pensioner does not
draw his pension for three years, he will
be dropped from the rolls.
]. u, Ill.-lf your discharge was sent to
Washington when you had pension claim
pending, it is doubtless at the Pension
Office. 1t will not be delivered to any one
but yourself, and you should write to the
Commissioner of Pensions and ask that it
be sent to you by mail giving your name,
company, regiment and number of your
pension certificate.
II. O. B-A claim for pension or in
crease of pension is adjudicated upon the
evidence on file in such claim; not what
the claimant thinks may be there. pro-
test against the determination of a claim
would not avail anything. If a claimant
is dissatisfied with his treatment by
Board of Medical Examiners, he should
enter his protest Immediately after his ex-
animation, and before his claim is adjudi-
Gated.
nj. 7. ito give pensions to those to
whom Congress has or does award Medals
of Honor $50 a month after the age of GO
years: the age limit not to apply to veter-
ans Of the civil war: S. 1883"
III. E. B.-If any soldier who is pen
stoned under the general law wishes to get
the benefit of higher rate of pension be-
cause of his age, he must make application
under the law of 1890 to do so. But he
does not surrender any rights he may have
under fha general law and the proof of the
incurrence of his disabilities while in serv-
ice that he has made is still a matter of
record in the Pension Office.
W. n. B.@There is probably no way by