Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-01-11
SOLDIERS AND DEPEND
ENIS benefited BY
NEW INSURANCE ACT
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can upon the other to be reimbursed
lof services rendered and for appli-
ances furn, shed."
PROVISIONS of the new law liberaliz-
ing the insurance provisions of the
original war risk act also were ex-
pialhed by Mr.. sweet, who enumerated
numerous benefits to the veterans that
Will result from his bill,
Ihe original law confined and re-
strlcted the beneficiaries to a very
limited class" said Mr.. Sweet, "but
ne new law increases this class and
also extends the definition Of the
terms father and mother to include
persons who have stood in loco paren-
tbs tplace of parents) TO a member
OF the military service for at least one
year.
mere are many cases where the
soldier or sailor has designated an
aunt or uncle or some one who has
been in the position of parent to him
prior 10 entering the war. These per-
sons, under the original law, were not
Within the permitted class of benefit
Charles and the intention of the sol
der was thus defeated, and the insur-
ance would go TO the father, if living,
who has perhaps never paid any at
tention to the boy With the new pro-
visions Of the law, If the soldier had
designated his aunt wrc u reality has
been mother to him, she will in fact
become his beneficiary and receive
the INSURANCE. money. These changes
are made retroactive to the date of
the passage Of the original war risk
insurance act.
Then, too, the new law permits
converted insurance to be made as
signable; that is beneficiary can
make assignment of his interest to an
other person. provided that the latter
is within the permitted class of bene-
flciarles.
Another Vital Change.
Another change in the insurance
provision provides that automatic in
Surance is provided for the first, 100
days after d PERSONS admission 70 the
military service. This automa ic in
surance, amounting TO the paym Ant of
$25 month for twenty years, was I'M
der the original law granted only for
the first six months of the life of the
original act. The extension, under the
new law, will cost the government
Sc, 1000. incidentally, the extern
sion grants the insurance to all of the
officers and crew of the naval collier
Cyclops, which disappeared at sea in
1918 when bringing a cargo of war
ore from South America.
For the unfortunate eX-service
men confined in asylums, the new law
gives the immediate benefits of the in
surance without waiting the appoint
ment of guardians. Money payable to
such persons will be placed in the
treasury to their credits and may be
disbursed to the chief executive Off
Ger of the asylum for the maintenance
and comfort of the inmate.
Another change in the insurance
provisions is that authorizing the in
surance to be paid to the eX-service
mans estate, where no one of the per-
mitted clas- of beneficiaries survives
the insured
ITO dispose of the so-called in
Quoted man problem, provision is
made that if, after induction by the
local draft board, but before accepted
and enrolled at camp for active serv-
ice, the person dies4g has become dis
abled by injury -+sIicP as. by a train
wreck en- route to camper by disease
not due to wilful misconduct, that he
shall receive compensation, as in
creased by the new law, and further
if application was made for insurance
that it shall he deemed valid"