Evening star., 1923-10-28
VETERAN BUREAU
BONUS RESTORED
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Transferred and Reinstated
Employees to Get Back Pay
in Number of Cases.

The s240 bonus will be restored to
number of Veterans Bureau en-
ployes, and back pay will be ad-
Justed In cases to the amount of
$780, as result of a recent decision
of Controller General McCarl.
Already about twelve employees. of
the bureau, some of whom are in
Washington, have been certified to
receive the bonus in addition to their
present salary. They will also re-
ceive checks of considerable size ad-
justing their back pay.
A letter has been sent out to all
to all divisions of the bureau, here
by w. N. Cobb, chief of pc, sonnel,
asking for report on all persons
who may be eligible to receive the
additional pay. These reports are
constantly coming in, about forty
having been received to date. Sew
eral hundred are expected.
Makes Cases Complex.
The administration of the control
1er's ruling is involving the bureau
officials in a complex system on ac
count of the vast variety of cases
presenting themselves as eligible for
be certified whose cases come clearly
within the meaning of the control
!er's ruling, Mr.. Cobb said, explain
ing that the controller would be
asked to rule on number of addi-
tional typical cases in order to estab-
llsh precedents upon which the Off
cials of the bureau safely may pro-
ceed.
Generally speaking, the controller
held that those employees who had re-
ceived the bonus in another depart
ment or bureau of the government
since July /, 1921, and had lost it
upon transfer to the Veterans Bureau
were still entitled to the same. 1t
also affects former employees of the
bureau restored to duty.
Whether an employe resigns in
one department and is Immediately
appointed to another by transfer has
no material bearing on his right to
increase of compensation" said Con-
troller Accarl. His right to increase
of compensation depends on whether
or not he comes within the terms of
the acts granting increase of COM
pensation."
The ruling was made in the case of
two employees, Chester K. Gould, for
merly. special assistant in. the office
revenue here, and Mrs. Florence Par
mer, formerly in the War Depart
ment. Mrs. Farmer received S349.33
back bonus pay, and now is receiving
the bonus regularly in addition to her
basic pay. .s
Asks for List.
Chief of Personnel Cobb in his let
ter asking for the records of all per-
sons thought to be eligible to such
increase of pay, says in part:
I'm order that the cases OF all en-
ployes likely to be affected may be con-
sidered, you will please submit list
to this office of all personnel serving in
your district or hospital who have been
transferred from other government de-
partments where they were receiving
the bonus. 1t is desired that this list
shall date from August 8, 1921, and it is
also to include those persons reinstated
who were formerly employed in the
bureau or some other government de-
partment where they received the bonus.
mo employe will be affected by this
decision, however, unless he has re-
ceived the bonus since July ], 1921"
A large number of the employees of
the bureau are receiving the bonus. but
under the bonus appropriation act of
June 29, 1922, many of them are receiV-
ing basic salary without the bonus.