The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-11-03

sation shall be payable WneheVel
death or disability resulting from SUCH
injury occurs. (Sec. 3O6O
commentator shall not be payable
for death in the course of the service
until the death be Officially recordeo
in the department under which the
person may be serving.
No compensation shall be payable
for a period in which the man mas
been reported missing and FAMILY
allowance has been paid for him.
(Sec. 3O7.)
a crime or military offense is not
compensate. unless it is inflicted by
the enemy.
DishonorabIe discharge is bar to
any compensation Sec. 308.)
Compensation is not assignable and
is exempt from attachment, execution.
and from all taxation. (Sec. BID
Compensation shall not be paid
while the person is in receipt of ser
vice or retirement pay.
Except as rights have heretofore
accrued, existing laws providing pay
ments in the event of death in the
service and existing pension laws shall
not be applicable to persons now or
hereafter in the service.
Compensation to members of the
Army Nurse Corps or of the Navy
Nurse Corps is in lieu of compensa-
ton under the act of September 2,
1916, (Sec.. 312.)
When CI:lim Must Be Filed
In case of disability, claim must be
filed within five years after discharge
or resignation from the service; or, If
the disability occur after leaving the
- II = !,
beginning of disability.
In case of death during the service,
the claim must be filed within five
years after the death is officially re-
corded in the department in which
the person is serving.
In case of death after discharge or
resignation from the service, the
claim must be filed within five years
after death. { Sec. 309.)
No compensation shall be payable
for any period more than two years
prior to the date of claim. (Sec. 310.)
Insurance
Insurance against death or total
permanent disability is provided by
the United States and made available
to every officer and enlisted man and
to members Of the Army Nurse Corps
and Navy Nurse Corps when employ
ed in active service under the War
and Navy DEPARTING nts.
Insurance must be in multipIes of
$500 and not less than $1,000 or more
than $4,000.
Insurance must be granted without
medical examination.
Insurance must be applied for with
in 120 days after enlistment and be-
fore discharge or resignation from
the service
Persons who are in active service
at the time of the publication Of
terms and conditions may apply at
any time within 100 days thereafter,
while in service. (This period expires
February II, 1879
Automatic Insurance.
Any person in active service ON or
after the 9Th of April, 1917, is insur-
ed automatically until February IL.
1918, unless he has applied for insur-
ance to take effect at an earlier date.
The protection thus given is against
death and against total, permanent
disability occurring, while in active
service, from April 6, 1917, to Febru-
airy IL, 1918, inclusive.
If the insured person die, without
having become so disabled, during the
period stated, monthly installments of
s25 each will be paid his wife, child,
or widowed moth. These installments
are payable to the wife during her
!widowhood or to the child or widowed
mother while they survive him, but
not more than $40 installments shall
be SO paid.
If the insured person becomes to-
tally and permanently disabled during
the period stated he will receive an
l irro III =,
ments of $25 each during disab ility.
It he die, like installments are pay
able to the wife. during her widow
hood or to the child or widowed
mother while they survive him, but
not more than 240 instal1ments less
the number of insta1lments that may
have been paid to the insured while
disabled shall be SO paid. (Sec. 401. }
Insurance Details
Insurance shall not be assignable
or subject to claims of creditors of the
insured or of the beneficiaries.
Insurance shall be payable only to
wife or husband, child, grandchiId,
parent, brother, or sister of the injur-
ed or to himself.( Automatic insur-
ance is payable only to wife, child,
or widowed mother.)
Insurance shall be payable in 24O
monthly installments, except that in
the case of total permanent disability
monthly installments will be contin-
ued throughout the duration of dis
ability
Provisions for endowment, contin-
uous installments, surrender values,
dividends. ETC., as may be reasonable
may be provided by regulation.
The insured has the right to change
the beneficiary without consent, but
only within the permitted class.
II no beneficiary within the permit
ted class be designated by the insured
either in his lifetime or by his last
will and testament, or if the desighat
ed beneficiary does not survive the
insured, the insurance Cor if any
beneficiary survives the insured but
does not receive all the instsllments
then the remaining installments)
shall be payable to such person OF
persons, within the permitted class
| OF beneficiaries, as would under the
laws of the state of the residence OF
the insured be entitled to his persona
property in case of intestacy. If NO
such person survive the insured. then
there shall be paid to the estate OF
the insured an amount equal to the
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