Evening star., 1924-07-19
YOUR BONUS
Questions That Bother You
Will Be Answered in
This Column.
Address: Room TO, News De-
partment. The Evening Stnr.
Washington, ID. G.

Q. If a man has a wife and a child
living and the wife will not divorce
him. because she wants part of his
disability compensation and also his
bonus, can she, in case of his DEATH
claim his bonus if he has named as
beneficiary friend who is in reality
his common-law wife?-CLAIRE.
A The Veteran kho rendered the
service, under the law, can name any
person as his beneficiary. He does
not have to name his wife nor his
child nor any relative. If he wants
a eommon-law wife to receive the
benefits of his adjusted compensation
in the event of his death all he has
to do is name her in his application
for the bonus. No person. whether
related or not can take that right
away from him. No person can claim
the benefits of his adjusted compensa-
tion in case of his death except the
person he named as his beneficiary
He can change his beneficiary, how
ever, at will with the consent of the
director of the Veterans Bureau.
@. My husband died in the service
During the period he was in the serv-
ice l received an allotment and at the
time of his death was dependent upon
him. His mother receives the bene-
fits of the war FISK insurance ne
fact prevent me from collecting the
bonus?-J. l.. q.
A. The fact that you have remar-
ried will prevent you from collecting
the benefits of the bonus which your
husbands military service earned II
you have any children by your hrst
marriage, they would be entitled to
it. If not. your husbands mother will
be entitled to it. provided she was
dependent upon him at the time OF
his death.
O. How long after my death Gf /
should die before the twenty-year
period for which my certificate will
run) will it be before my beneficiary
will receive any help from the insur-
ance certificate? Will it be paid in
cash or monthly installments?-J.
F. M.
A. Upon your death, if it should oc-
cur before the twenty-year period the
face value of your certificate will be
paid in cash to the beneficiary whom
you named Your beneficiary will
have to submit proof of your death
in the form of a death certificate and
then the Veterans Bureau ought to
be able to approve of and authorize
the payment in cash in a week or ten
days. 1t will be a comparatively easy
proposition to pay your beneficiary
promptly, provided of course, that
there are no complications of a per-
sonal nature and you" have at no
time authorized change of bene-
ficiary. The answer to your third
question is fully covered in the reply
to the first question appearing in to-
days column.
Q. In our post of the American Le-
gion the following question has arisen
and we will appreciate very much
your, answer to it. If a soldier files
an application for the bonus today
and dies prior to March /. 1925, how
much would his wife receive, she be-
ing both the beneficiary named in
the application and a dependent at
the time Of the veterans death?
w. NJ D.
A. Section SOL, of title 5, of the ad-
justed compensation act reads as fol-
lows, "1f the veteran dies after max
ing application, but before January
/, 1925, then the amount of the face
value of the certificate shall be paid
in the same manner as II his death
had occurred after January l, 1925"
AS soon as a veteran has signed an
application blank and therein named
q beneficiary, the person so named be-