European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 23, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Since the passage last summer of the i Bill of rights servicemen readjustment act of 1944 yank has been flooded with mail from gis seeking information about the Bene fits the Law gives until very it want possible to answer some of the questions because the regulations covering Many phases of the Law haunt been issued by the veterans All parts of the Law have been cleared and Here Are the answers to the types of questions most frequently raised by yank general i hear Tell that Only those gis who have More than two years of service under their belts can get in on the benefits of the i Bill of is that Correct it is in order to qualify for any of the benefits of the i Bill of you need Only 90 Days of in if you Are discharged for o service connected you do not even have to meet this requirement of the i was court articled for being awol for seven Days and got three months in the guard now i am told that my court martial rec Ord will get me a Blue without Honor discharge when i get out of the does that mean i cannot get in on the benefits of the i Bill of rights it does even if you should get a Blue you will be eligible for the benefits of the Only those who receive dishonourable yellow discharges Are out of Luck under the i bit of education i have read a number of articles about the free schooling granted under the i Bill of rights and i must admit i am completely con one writer says that men Over 25 Are not eligible for the free while another says All gis regardless of their age can get at least one year of free who is right the one who that All gis can get at least one full year of free schooling is Only gis who do not meet the 90day qualifying provision or who Are Dis honorable Dis charged Are out of Luck on the free i was just 19 when i was inducted and have now been in service three How much free schooling am i entitled to you Are entitled to a full fou year course of study at government you get one year of school by meeting the 90dayservke qualification i and in because you were under 25 when you joined you get added periods of free schooling measured by your length of the vet Erans administration has ruled that for each month of service a i can get a Calendar month of since the average school year is Mode up of nine Calendar 27 months of service will get you three years of plus the one year previously gives you a total of four years of since four years is the the rest of your service time does not count toward free i own a and when i get out of service id like to take advantage of both the educational and the far loan provisions of the i Bill of will i be permitted to go to school and borrow Money for new equipment for the farm you probably a Veteran May take advantage of More than one provision of the i Bill of rights at a if you can convince your Bank that you can attend school and run your farm at the same you should have no trouble swinging the loan to buy the new i have a wife and three when 1 get id like to take advantage of the free How much will i receive for subsistence while attending school b you will get a month while attending every i who attends school full time will get o those with dependents get a month in the number of dependents Doest since the maximum amount paid is before i entered the army i was studying now that i am i can see that this was a mistake and that i am Best fitted for research in can i switch Over to chemistry or must i continue the course i was studying before i entered the army you can study anything you under the i Bill of rights o Veteran can go to any approved school or College and study anything he what soldiers want to know is How their Bill of rights yank untangle some problems stated in letters to the Loans i know All about the free schooling i can get via the i Bill of but what id like to know is what does the Law do for the Guy who does not want to go to school the i Bui of rights also provides for loan guarantees of up to 50 percent of o Loon for forms or in the Law provides unemployment Protection to the tune of a week for up to 52 weeks of i have been told that any Cash benefits under the i Bill of rights will be taken out of any future Bonus that May be is this True p it the Low states that any benefits derived under the i Bill of rights shall be deducted from any future for if you get a loan guaranteed under the any Bonus Money you May be entitled to will be used to reduce the amount of the loan still unpaid at the time the Bonus is if any Bonus Money is left after you will get the remainder in 4 my wife and i Are both in can we each get a loan guaranteed under the i Bill of rights to be used in buying a House you each of you will be treated As an individual if you Are both Able to swing Loans from your you should get the Loans guaranteed from the some of the boys Tell me that the govern ment pays All the interest on the Loans we get under the i Bill of Are they right they Are during the first year of the loan the veterans administration will pay the interest on that part of the loan which it has if you get a the a will pay the interest on or at 4 per the maximum you May you will Hove to pay the rest of the interest when i get id like to buy a farm and turn it Over to a tenant to meanwhile i want to go Back to my own business and let the tenant run the farm for will i be Able to get a farm loan guarantee if i do that you will a Veteran can get a farm loan guaranteed Only if he personally directs and the you of hire All the help you but you will not be permitted to operate the farm through i own a farm which my younger brother and sister have been running in my they Tell me that local taxes have been accumulating at a fast will i be permitted to Bor Row Money under the i Bill of rights to pay off the taxes you you May get either a farm loan or a Home Loon and use the Money to pay off taxes on your the same thing applies to taxes on a town or City Home owned by a i already own a Home and i know that while i have been in service it has been going to one thing i will need when i get Back is a new Oil will a loan for an Oil Burner be approved under the i Bill of rights it the general Rule is that any alteration or Addi Tion to your Home which becomes a part of the real estate is of for a loan employment when i am discharged i expect to go into a business of my if the business does not Suc will i be Able to get any Money under the unemployment provisions of the i Bill of rights if your business folds up and you Are not earning any you will get a should your business fall off so that you earn lest Thart during any Calendar month you will get the difference Between what you earn and this difference will be paid Only for a maximum of 52 i have now been in service for four it i were to be discharged right How Many weeks of unemployment insurance compensation could i get if i were out of work a total of 28 weeks of unemployment you get eight week credit for each of the first three months of your service and four additional weeks for each month the maximum any Veteran can get is 52 i have been told that in order to get unemployment pay allowed under the i Bill of i must be willing to take a Job even if it is in a factory where there is a is that right it is you do not Hove to accept o Job which is Avail Able directly As a result of a lockout or other labor your refusal to accept such a Job will not affect your right to the unemployment fag 5