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Elem. PTA Meets 21st
The Rappahannock County Elementary School PTA will meet Tuesday, January 21 at 7:30 p.m. in the school auditorium.
Members of the Rappahannock School Board will participate in the meeting. If you have not had an opportunity to meet the School Board representative from your district, it is hoped that you will avail yourself of this opportunity.
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Increased benefits are on the way for Rappahannock County veterans and their dependents.
Their monthly compensation and pension checks will be bigger than ever, thanks to two laws passed by Congress during the past year.
In addition, for those who are veterans of World Wars I and II and hold G. I. insurance policies, there will be an increase in dividend payments.
One of the laws provides for a new schedule of compensation payments to veterans who were disabled while in active service.
It increases, by $235 million, the annual amount to be paid to the 1,952,000 veterans now getting such aid. They had been receiving $2 billion a year, which averaged out to $1,025 per person. The new average will be $1,145.
Just how much any particular veteran will receive will depend upon the extent of his disability. Those with 100 percent disability will now get $4,800 a year, as compared with $3,600 previously. For those with 20 percent disability, on the other hand, the compensation will be $516.
Approximately 30 of Rappahannock County’s veterans will be getting bigger compensation checks as a result. Payments to them will total $34,000 this year, it is estimated. The increased rates will show up in the checks for January, which will be arriving in February. The Veterans Administration states that recipients will get the increases automatically, without application. The second action taken by Congress will boost payments to other Rappahannock County veterans who are getting pensions for total disability that was not incurred while in active service. The average increase, for the 1,100,000 throughout the country who are getting such pensions, will be $110 a year. Their increase will be based upon a new formula that relates the amount they will get to other income they are receiving. The VA announces, also, that local veterans who served in the two World Wars and have G. L insurance policies will share in $236 million in dividends that will be distributed during the course of the year. It is $13 million more than was paid out last year.
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