Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-07
VETERANS BUREAU
FORCE TO GAIN ITS
Demands for Loans on Com
pensation Certificates Re-
quire Enlargement.

Anticipating the greatest demand for
loans on veterans adjusted compensa-
ton certificates yet experienced, be-
ginning January /, on account of the
depression, Col. George E. Ijams, d.
rector of the United States Veterans
Bureau is making plans to add ATS adj
ditional temporary employees.
Already in the finance division OF the
bureau employees are working half an
hour extra time because of the heavy
work of the loans which are now going
through, but 1t is hoped that with the
addition of new personnel the over
time may be eliminated.
The first adjusted certificates, or
bonuses issued by the Government
were dated January /, 1925, and on
each succeeding year the great number
of those certificates bearing that date
achieve a new loan value.
Information Is Asked.
Numerous requests have come from
field officers of the bureau already ask
to handle the big load expected on jan
uary 1. Director Ijams said he hoped
to be prepared, so that instead of the
bureau getting piled up with an ac-
emulation of applications at that time
from persons who may be in distress
the bureau will have a trained organi-
cation ready to handle the work i'm
mediately instead of letting it pile up.
The new personnel would include
clerk typists, of grade known as "cleri-
cal and fiscal l." and would be tenn.
porary employees for work from Deem
Der is to April. Seventy-five persons
would be added to the Office here and
200 to the offices of the bureau
throughout the field.
'We hope to get these new employees,
train them and have them in readi-
ness so they will be available when
the big load starts in January" said
Col. Ijams. "By this means we hope
to take care of the work by giving
employment to additional people, in
stead Of working our present employees
overtime. The program should be some
help, not only in helping to relieve
somewhat the unemployment situation.
but also in making it possible for the
bureau to grant loans to veterans who
need them, as soon as possible"
$50 Already Employed.
In addition to the new temporary en-
ployes to be taken on. Col. Ijams dis
closed that the bureau already had
given employment to $50 new employees
since September / here and throughout
the field in taking care of the increased
business of the bureau under the new
law granting disability allowance. The
law became effective last July.
Latest figures on these applications
for disability allowance show that up
to and including october 81 the num-
Der of these applications had climbed
to 242,99l. OF these 59,837 have been
adjudicated, or 24.63 per cent. AS of
October IS, 224,955 claims were on file,
of which II per cent had been adjudi-
Gated. Thus it will be seen. Col Ijams
pointed out, that the bureau is catching
up on the work of adjudicating claims
for the new disability allowance, the
percentage adjudicated growing from
II to 24.63 in is days.
Last year the bureau put on between
30 and 80 temporary employees to help
handle the loan business which started
January /, but it is planned this year
to put on about 275. The business de-
preston is expected to send a larger
percentage of veterans in search of loans
than ever before, according to reports
from the field to headquarters Of the
bureau here.
Three new large heating boilers have
been installed in the Veterans Bureau
Building, to take the place of 'locomo-
tive boilers" installed when the building
was constructed, and which have worn
out.