Evening star., 1924-08-23
YOUR BONUS
Questions That Bother You
Will Be Answered in
This Column.
Address: Room s22, News De-
partment. The Evening Star,
Washington, ID. c.

9. l am constant reader of your
paper and. having to prepare a speech
on the bonus, l would very much ap-
preciate a brief definition of the fol-
lowing words or things: Bonus, ad-
justed compensation, credit, bene-
ficiary, veteran, certificate, pension,
insurance benefits, dependent, COM
pensation.-M. Il. G.
a. Bonus and adjusted compensa-
tion are one and the same thing.
Bonus is a misnomer. Adjusted COM
penSation is the term used in the law
and more nearly and accurately de-
scribeS the benefits extended. The
amount of each veterans adjusted
compensation is based upon a credit
for each day of service rendered.
When applying for adjusted compen-
sation each veteran claimant is asked
to name a beneficiary to whom the
face value of his adjusted compensa-
tion will be payable if his death
should occur before the expiration of
20 years. A veteran is any person
who served honorably and who en-
tered the service between April s,
1917, and November l., 1918. If he
entered the service between these two
dates he is allowed a credit for all
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such entrance until July 1, 1919. Ad-
justed service certificates are to be
issued to each veteran, that will be
his bonus or adjusted compensation.
A pension is payment made to others
than those that served in the World
War. 1t is usually payable either for
disabilities incurred in the service
prior to the World War or for death
of a father or husband, or on account
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generally in this column apply to
payments being made by the Vet
erans' Bureau to persons within the
permitted class of beneticiaries sur
viving men who died i'll the service,
or who have died since, either from
war disabilities or whose insurance
became due and payable upon death
not attributable to the service. A de-
pendent is one who survives q vet
eran, as limited by the act, to a
widow unmarried, children, mother
and father. Dependency is presumed
in the cases of unmarried widows and
minor children.
Mothers and fathers must swear to
dependency. Compensation is payable
to certain surviving relatives of men
who died in the service or have died
after discharge from the service from
an injury treaceable to the military
service, or where dependency arises
within a period not to exceed five
years after the death of the veteran
These definitions are given as they
relate to the adjusted compensation
act. They are not strictly speaking,
accurate legal descriptions of the
words or terms used.
Q. I served overseas in the Army
and there is no question asked re-
garding this service in the application
blank for adjusted compensation,
Should i mention under item of re-
marks the fact that / served in
F'rance?-F. G. NJ.
A. You do not need to do this be-
cause the War Department has your
service record and from it can ascer-
tain the exact date that you sailed
and the date that you disembarked
from such service. Men who served
in the Marine Corps are the only per-
sons who need to show on their ap-
plication the fact of overseas service
@. Please tell me what dependency
is and how the departments will con-
strue this term for the benefit of q
client whom I am assisting to secure