The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-08-09
EXPLANATION G'l.lElH3
OF AllOTMENTS
BY SOLDIERS
CHECKS TO COVER ALLoTMENTS
AND GOVERNMENT ALLOW.
ANcES BEING MAILED.
CHANGE IN the SYSTEM
War Risk Board Now Sends Only
Amounts Required by Regulations
and Military Branches Send Checks
For Amount Over That.

TOR Amount over That.
A statement has been issued b,
Major Rutledge Smith in explanatio.
to the 100000 people who will bt
wondering why their allotment and
allowance checks for this month from
the Bureau of War Risk Insurance are
reduced in amount. The Treasury de
partment has issued several state
ments on this subject and it has been
mentioned in newspaper dispatches
but Maj. Smith thinks that it has not
been given sufficient publicity "a
drive the subject home, AMI that it is
not yet understood by the public. So
the following memorandum was is.
sued for the information of the pub.
lie and for the purpose of answering
inquiries on the subject:
enlisted man in the active
military or naval service is under a
duty to allot SIS month from his pay
to his wife and children. To these
compulsory allotments the Govern
ment adds family allowances, ranging
from IS a month for the motherless
child. and SIS for a wife without
children, up to maximum of $50. The
compulsory allotments are the same
for all enlisted men, regardless. Of
rank or pay. -
in addition to the compulsory al.
lotments, the enlisted men may also
make voluntary allotments to his par
ents,i gradparents, brothers, sisters,
or grandchildren, and, if they are de-
pendent upon him for support, the
Government may add certain monthly
family allowances
If the enlisted man is already MAX
ing compulsory allotment to his
wife aud children, he need allot only
SO additional to his brothers, sisters.
grandparents, and grand
If he claims a family allow
Ance for them. But If he is not MAX
ing aocompulsofy Ian9thlerA hssaMstA|
allot .$l5 to such other relatives to oo.1
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The Bureau of War Risk Insurance
will npay allotments only when thew
carry with 'them fGoverpfhant family
allowances, and 'then bh,y In the
required to support Such al
oWances. All other allo.ments will
% paid by the branch of the military
n naval service in which the man is
tf qlfaasn So5 5o<4i
The essence of the wloie change
n dollars and cents is simply this:
Heretofore when an enlisted man
.llotted more than the required
mount the Bureau of War Risk In
urance included this x,ess in the
heck which is sent to the relative.
low this is changed. All excess al.
otments will be paid by The Army,
ne Navy, the Marine Corps, and the
cast Guard directly.
Another element which will tend
reduce the Bureau of War Risk In.
urance checks is this.
In the past compulsory allot-
lent made by an enlisted man to his
lie and children varied according to {
is rank and pay The amount was J
Of fixed. The only limits were a :
minimum of SIS month and a max.
mum OF half the mans pay. b.
Veen these two poles, the allotment '
spended on the mans pay, the law y
,ecifying that he had to equal, If u
'ssible. the Government allowance. u
ais sliding scale arrang ement was o
Hanged by an amendment to the War u
sk Insurance Act, effective July 1st, u
IL. Hereafter, allotmenls, as stated Il
eviously are the same for all en-
ted men regardless of rank or pay. !.
I'm other words, sergeant making
8 month, who under the old sys.
m would have been compelled to
ot VA to his wife and children will
W be required to allot only S1b, ~
US looping SO off the check which
Bureau of War Risk Insurance will