The Alaska daily empire., 1918-09-05
SOLDIERS MUST ALL0T PAY TO
 THEIR FAMILIES R. E. Robertson Has Re- ceived Detailed Explan-
 ation of Changes
 About Checks.
CHECKS HOW HANDLED
System Worked Out by Government by Which Families Shall Re-
 ceive Money.

K. E. Robertson, as cn1e1 or tne Home Service Bureau of the Juneau Red Cross, has received a complete explanation of the changes in the August checks to soldiers and sail ors' families from the Government. Under the new ruling there will be no change in the checks of enlist ed men whose pay is $30 month and who have been allotting his wife and children only the amount re- quired by law, $15. They must continue to allot this amount and the Government will continue $15 addi- tional to the wife and the same amount as previously for each child. There has been a reduction in the compulsory allotment for men get ing over $50. Under the law, the compulsory allotment is $15 for all enlisted men so that there will be a reductionu for those getting over $50. rfg Iysn'
 If he wishes to continue to con- tribute to his wife and children the same amount as before, he may make new allotment for the difference through the War Department or Ma wy Department. Thus, for example,
 f he had formerly allotted SIS to his wife and children and wishes to con- tinue to do so, he must make new allotment of $3 through the War or Navy Departments, as the Bureau of War Rick Insurance will in the fu- lure handle only the $15 compulsory allotment
 Relatives or friends of enlisted men not included in Class A. (wife, child, or former wife divorced, who has not remarried and to whom ali mony has been decreed) or in Class B. (parent, brother, sister, or grand child) to whom allotments have been made, will continue to receive them through the War Department or Ma wy Department as previously. Allot- ments to such persons were never handled by the Bureau of War Risk Insurance and no change is contem- plated in this regard.
 The War and Navy offices, all in Washington. D. G. which handle the allotments are, in the Navy, through the Navy Allotment Officer, Navy Department" in the Army, through the Offices of the Quartermaster General, U. S. Army" in the Marine Corps, through "Paymaster, U. s. Marine Corps Headquarters" and in the Coast Guard through the Cap tain Comamndant, U. s. Coast Guard
 Under the new plan of allotments and allowances is simplified. The Bureau of War Risk Insurance will now handle allotments of only two ,mounts-$15 and $2O. Formerly the allotment was on sliding scale and had to be changed every time mans pay was increased by promo ton or otherwise. This required from 150,0O0 to 100000 changes per month
 By transferring to the War and Navy Departments all allOtments not carrying allowances, the Bureau of War Risk Insurance can concentrate Ill its attention upon payments to persons entitled to the Government allowance, and 1t is believed that this simpufication of the work will
 tend to speed up the deliverey of checks to these persons.
 Prompt notice of these facts has been sent to men in all branches of
 he military and naval service, but will, of course, require some time | for the new forms to be executed md returned to Washington. Many men may decide that they do not | wish to continue to allot as much
 as before. In such cases the Gov
 ernment cannot compel them to keep up the former allotments, and the family may receive only the mini mum compulsory allotment of $1h and the same Government allowance as before.
 l Hereafter a man who has no wife
 or children need make an allotment
 of only $l5 to obtain the Government
 allowance for his dependent parents brothers or sisters.
 | If he has either wife or child
 or children, or both, to whom as the
 law requires. he is allotting $15. he
 need allot only $5 addition in order to obtain the full allowance for his
 dependent parents, brothers or sis ters.
 Formerly in many cases he had tt
 allot more. In each of these cases
 his parents, brothers. or sisters wil
 now receive a small check from the
 Bureau of War Risk Insurance be
 cause of the reduction in the allot
 ments required. The amount of thu
 Government allowance will be thu
 same. but the allotment required
 from his pay will be less. If h. desires to have the total continue al