Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1920-01-24
NEW AND MORE LIBERAL
 BENEFITS FOR EX-SOLDIERS

Under the new Amendment to the War Risk Insurance Act, which has been passed by Congress and which became a law on December "A, 1919, when it was signed by the President, war term insurance or United States Government life (converted) insur- ance policies may be made payable to any of the following list of benefi . ciaries:
 Parent, grandparent, stepparent, parent through adoption, wife or hus-
 band, child, grandchild, stepchild, adopted child, brother, sister, half brother, half-sister, brother through adoption, sister through adoption, stepbrother, stepsister, uncle, aunt, nephew, niece, brother-in-law, sister, in-law, a person who has stood in the relation of parent to the insured for period of one year or more prior to the insured's enlistment or induction, the children of such person; parent, grandparent, stepparent or parent through adoption of the insured's wife or husband.
 United States Government life (con- verted) insurance may now be paid at death in lump sum or in installments for 36 months or more, at the option of the insured.
 The rate of compensation for dis ability has been greatly increased. A comparison between the amounts for merly granted under the War Risk In- surance Act with those provided by the new law follows:
 Temporary w. R. I. Total Disability Act as Amended With neither wife nor child $50 5 80 With wife but no child ...-.... $45 5 90 With wife and one child .... $55 5 95 With wife and two children $65 $10O With wife and three or
 more children .................... $75 $1O0 With no wife but one child $40 5 90 With no wife but two
 children ............. $50 s 95 With no wife but three
 children ...................... $6O $1OO *With no wife but four
 children ........................... $60 $105 Extra allowance for dependent
 mother or dependent father
 or both ..-.. $10 each $10 each
 Under the new law there is an all lowance to a man temporarily totally disabled, and with no wife living, of $5 additional for each child Gin excess of one) without limit as to number.
 Total and Per As manent Disability Amended Under the War Risk Insurance Act the same scale applied for total and permanent disability as for temporary total disability A distinction is made between the two in the new law. Under the latter the compensation 1 monthly for total and perman- ent disability is ....-.................... s100
 w R. I. Act As Amended NOTE. (a) Under the new amendment if the disabled per son is so helpless as to be in constant need of nurse or at tendant, an additional allowance is provided, in the discretion of the Director, not exceeding ........ $2O Under the w. R. I. Act the same provision was effective, except that man receiving $100 per month Gas outlined in (b) be- low) could not be given an addi- tional allowance.
 ** (b) Both under the w. R.. Act and under the new law, the compensation for the loss of BOTH FEET OR BOTH or the SIGHT OF BOTH EYES, or for BECOM- ING HELPLESS AND PER- MANENTLY bedridden is $1OO S1OO In addition, the new law provid- es that compensation for the LOSS OF ONE FOOT AND ONE hand, or ONE FOOT AND THE SIGHT OF ONE EYE, or ONE HAND AND THE SIGHT OF ONE EYE, shall be ...........,....:.. s1oo
 Co The new law provides for DOUBLE TOTAL, PER- MANENT DISABILITY the rate of compensation shall be-. s2OO **The new law provides that each