The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-20
WAR RISK INSURANCE.
A Statement Issued BY Vermont Com
mittee of Public Safety.

J. G. Brown is sending out the follow
ing letter which is the revised regulations
governing war risk insurance and giving
more information than any recently is
sued;
The bureau of war risk insurance has
authorized the following statement re-
garding the payments of insurance pre-
miums by discharged soldiers;
At the time of the discharge of an Off
Ger or enlisted man who has taken out
insurance, he is handed memorandum
Of information on which is stated the
amount Of his monthly insurance pre-
MUM until July |, 1919, and the amount
of such premium for each year thereafter
for five years, commencing with July |.
This will leave no doubt as to the amount
Of each insurance payment AT the same
time each officer or enlisting man should
earn from his commanding officer or the
insurance officer the date to which his
premiums have been paid by deductions
from his pay.
Where to Send Checks.
If the insured at the time of his dis.
charge has learned the date to which his
premiums have been paid he should, on
the same date of the succeeding month,
send his premium to the disbursing clerk,
Bureau of War Risk Insurance, Treasury
Department, Washington, d. c.. making
the check or money order payable to the
treasurer of the United States, and
should continue such payments on the
same day of each month thereafter
If the insured has not been informed
as to the date to which his premiums
have been paid by checkage from his
pay, then he should without fail make
his first payment not later than 8 days
after his discharge, sending the check to
to the same person and making it pay.
able as indicated above. In his letter he
should ask to what date his premiums
are paid by the enclosed payment, and
upon receiving that information he
should make his future payments each
month thereafter on the date when it is
due. For example, if he was honorably
discharged on Nov. q and made his first
payment on Dec q and receives infor.
nation from the bureau that such pay
ment was due on Dec Is, he should make
his next payment on Jan. Is and regu
larly on the 18th of each succeeding
month.
Blanks VIII Be Sent Out.
On receipt of the first premium pay.
ment and of each succeeding premium
payment the bureau of war risk insur-
ance will send to the insured a blank to
use in making his next payment. If
such blank is not received or no reply re-
ceived to the first payment, the insured
should nevertheless make his next pay
ment not later than one month later than
the preceding payment, again asking for
information as to the date to which his
premiums are thereby paid
In all communications the insured
should give his full name, including both
| first and middle names, his grade and or
ganization at the time of applying for
insurance, his army serial number, the
| insurance certificate number (if he knows
| it, the date of discharge or separation
from the service and his present address.
This information is given notwith-
standing the fact that further regula-
tions possibly amending what has been
said, are under consideration because
their issuance may be long delayed if
they are issued at all.
What has been said in the preceding
paragraphs respecting premium pay
ments applies only to the present form
of term insurance and has no appica-
ton to other forms of government in
surance into which the present term in.
surance may be converted within five
years after the date of the termination
of the war as declared by proclamation
of the president. Regulations respecting
the conversion of term insurance have
not been issued by the bureau Of war risk
insurance.
Joseph G. Brown, Secretary