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WALTERS Plan
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Schools in D. {.
New Policy Also Aids
Those Studying Unde
Accelerated Program

Accelerated Program
The Veterans Administration will
modify its supervision of student
veterans attending school here under
the GI Bill tomorrow, G.. M. Heiss,
chief of rehabilitation and educa-
ton at the Washington regional Of
flee, announced yesterday.
At the same time, new leave poll
cies to permit unbroken subsistence
payments to veterans going to col
lege under the bill and taking an
accelerated program will go into ef-
feet.
These policy changes will apply
nationally as well as in the Dis
trict, VA officials said.
Under the new regulations, vet
erans will receive subsistence pay
ments for the full enrolment pc
riod certified to VA by the college,
provided there are no more than Is
days between terms.
A curtailing of VA supervision OF
student nt-veterans was necesSitated
by reductions in personnel required
| by cuts in the 1948 appropriations,
and made possible by new regula-
tions and procedure.
Disabled Assistance Unchanged.
Supervision of veteran-students
| training under Public Law 16 for
disabled veterans will not be af-
fected.
| About 10 schools will be affected
by the change. The number includes
the six larger universities: George
Washington, Georgetown, Maryland,
Catholic, American and Howard.
There now are 18 training officers
serving the six universities. A re-
duced force of six from now on will
devote full time to supervision OF
disabled trainees only.
Affirmative reports on conduct,
progress, grades and attendance no
longer will be required. The educa-
tional institutions will need to re-
port only unsatisfactory progress,
modification of courses and inter-
ruptions of training before the end
of semester, which would bear on
the subsistence allowances author
lied for student veterans.
Delays Are eliminated.
Under the new leave regulations,
veterans will be put on the subsis-
tence rolls from the date of enroll
ment until Is days after the close of
the period. Thus VA will be- able
to make final payment of subsistence
allowance without delay to the men
who do not return for the following
semester.
No leaves other than the 15-day
extension in training status will be
authorized by VA, except scholastic
leaves offered by the educational in
stitution to all students. The new
provisions will not apply to veterans
interrupting their training before
the end of term. In such cases,
authorization for subsistence pay
ment will end as OF the date the
training is interrupted.
If the period of a veterans eligi-
bility ends after the middle of a
semester, his eligibility for study
will be continued until the end of
that semester, and authorization for
subsistence allowances extended ac-
Icordingly.
All Will Get Leave.
The leave will be granted all vet
Grams on enrolment. Those who
do not want it must notify VA in
writing at least 80 days before the
end of the school year or other en-
rollment period.
VA is asking the educational in
stitutions to certify enrollments for
the full academic year and accept
the obligation of notifying it
promptly of veterans interrupting
their training before the school
year ends.
If the institutions certify enroll
ments only on semester basis, VA
will have to authorize subsistence
payments by single terms, risking
delay of subsistence checks due
veterans who enrolled for the fol-
lowing term.
Recertification Was Required.
Formerly, student-veterans were
taken off subsistence rolls at the
end of the normal school year.
Those choosing to continue their
studies during the summer semester
had to be recertified for subsistence
payments after they had enrolled
| for the summer terra.
Leave was earned at the rate of
two and a half days month dur
ing the course of study. On applica-
ton to VA, the veterans could use
this leave to extend their training
status at the close of the school
year. In so doing, they received
subsistence allowances for the ex-
tended period of training.
VA regional Office education Off
cials have been comforting during
the last week with school officials
to iron out details.