Vietnam Veterans To Get Added Benefits
President Johnson August 31
signed into law a bill providing
for significant increases in ben
efits for Vietnam veterans and
for older veterans as well, ac
cording to W.R. Phillips, Man
ager of the North Carolina Vet
erans Administration Regional
Office.
Called the “Veterans ” Pen
sion and Readjustment Assis
tance Actof 1967,“most provis
ions become effective Oct. 1.
Under one major provision
veterans of the Vietnam era,
which began August 5,1964, will
receive compensation for dis
abilities at full wartime rates
and will qualify for non-service
connected pensions on the same
basis as older veterans. Their
widows and children become el
igible for nonservice-connected
death benefits.
While this provision becomes
effective Oct. 1, an allowance of
$250 for burial and funeral ex
penses of deceased individuals
who served in the Vietnam era
became effective immediately,
Phillips said.
Under the law, certain other
major provisions effective Oct.
1 apply to all qualified veterans
who served after Jan. 31, 1955.
These include:
lowances for full-time courses
have been increased from $100
to $130 a month for a single vet
eran, from $12 5 to $155 for a vet
eran with one dependent, and
from $150 to $175 for two depen
dents with an additional $10 for
each dependent in excess of two.
Proportionately smaller allow
ances will be allowed for part
time training.
Full educational assistance
allowances will be paid to “ed
ucationally disadvantaged” vet
erans so they can complete high
school without reducing their
eligibility for advanced educa
tional benefits.
Monthly allowances for on
the-job training for the first six
months will range from $80 a
month for a single veteran to
$100 a month when there are two
or more dependents. The allow
ances are reduced for succeed
ing six-month periods.
Monthly allowances for farm
cooperative training will cover
institutional agricultural cour
ses with a minimum of 12 clock
hours per week in addition to re
lated work on the farm. Allow
ances range from $105 a month
for a single veteran to $145 a
month when there ?re two de
pendents, plus an additional $7
a month for each additional de
pendent.
Ninety per cent of the estab
lished charge for flight training
is provided for veterans with a
private pilot licence (or the
equivalent in flight training
hours) who can pass the physical
examination for a commercial
pilot's license.
An allowance of $1,600 will be
authorized for the purchase of
specially-equipped automobiles
for certain severely disabled
veterans.
Phillips said World War II
veterans benefit by the new law
by having the final cut-off date
on eligibility for the GI loan pro
gram extend to July 25, 1970
from July 25, 1967.
Some other provisions of the
law extend benefits to certain of
America’s veterans, from the
Vietnam era to theSpanish-Am
erican War. Such benefits in
clude:
veterans ana aepenaenis oi
deceased veterans receiving VA
pension under the current pen
sion program will get a cost-of
living increase averaging more
than 5 per cent, with widows in
the lowest income categories
receiving an increase erf about
8 1/2 percent.
Children up to age 26 of vet
erans who died or were perman
ently and totally disabled as the
result of a service-connected
disability, or who died from any
cause while qualifying for per
manent and total disability com
pensation, will become eligible
for grants of $130 a month for
four years of approved college
or vocational training.
Statutory awards of $47 a
month, In addition toother com
pensation, have been going to
certain disabled veterans who
have service-connected disa
bilities involving the loss of a
hand, foot, eye, creative organ,
or both buttocks, or have sus
KEY TARGETS BOMBED
The Pentagon has announced
that American planes have
bombed more than 22 5 important
military targets in North Viet
nam in the two and one-half
year air campaign. Acting on
recommendations from the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, the pres
ident personally authorized
many of the bombings.
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Mayor Greene Notes CnnatituMnn Wool
tained deafness in both ears or
lost the power of speech. Only
one of these statutory awards
could be paid under the old law;
the new law authorized payment
of an additional statutory award
for each of these conditions, not
to exceed a total of $400 a month.
Veterans entitled to pensions,
based on the need for regular
“aid and attendance,” will be
authorized for therapeutic or
rehabilitative devices, medical
equipment or supplies, when
medically indicated. These vet
erans, and those receiving aid
and attendance compensation
for service-connected disabili
ties will also be furnished drugs
and medicines. (This became
effective when the President
signed the law.)
The new law will have a sig
nificant impact on many of the
25.8 million living veterans, ac
cording to the VA. Veterans and
dependents of deceased vet
erans may receive information
about their eligibility, as well as
assistance in applying for ben
efits from contact representa
tives at any VA office or hos
pital.
WHEREAS, September 17,
1967, marks the one hundred
eightieth anniversary of the
adoption of the Constitution of
the United States of America
by the Constitutional Con
vention; and
WHEREAS, To accord official
recognition to this memorable
anniversary, and to the patri
otic exercise that will form a
noteworthy feature of the
occasion, seems fitting and pro
per; and
WHEREAS, Public Law No,
915 guarantees the issuing of
a proclamation each year by
the President of the United
States of America designating
September 17 through 23 as
Constitution Week;
NOW, THEREFORE, I Clyde
R. Greene hy virtue ot the
authority vested in me as Mayor
of the City of Boone On the
State of N. C.) do hereby pro
claim the week of September
17-23, 1967 as Constitution
Week in the City of Boone,
and urge all our citizens to
pay special attention during the
week to our Federal Constitution
and the advantages of American
CitizenshiD.
In Witness Whereof, I tee*
hereunto set my hand and canned
the Seal of the City to be affixed
at this d»y in the year of oar
lord one thousand nine hod
red and sixty-seven, and the
independence of tte United
States of America, the onehon
dred and ninety-first.
CLYDE R. GREENE
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