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~ f ■ J ■ 1 ■ t- 20 — MANCHESTER HERALD. Mon.. April 26. 1982 B USINESS Keeney Street School Town may seek accord Bolton condo plans 25th birt/iday for medics, ambulanc'e foes gear up ■In brief---------- VA wants interest too . page 13 . page 16 ... page 3 Joins company Counseling Affiliates of Greater Hartford, P.C., Vets due shock over debts has announced that Angela Phelan, M.S., More rain, Manchester, Conn. has joined the If you’re among the nation’s 30 million military ser­ The VA also has been authorized to work with private organization to vice veterans, you also may be among the 1 million soon collection agencies to dun its debtors. ( “ Compassion cooler Vlfednesday Tuesday,'April 27, 1982 provide career and care” from a private collection agency?) to get a big kick in your wallet from the Veterans Ad­ Single .copy 25it counseling and ministration. ’This means YOU if, for one reason or Your Are you, a veteran aware of the debts you owe? If you — See page 2 testing services to another, you have received excess benefits payments are not, you’re in for a shock when you receive a letter, resid en ts in the from the U.S. government and have never returned the Money's soon stating the totals. Glastonbury- money. You, the veteran, will then be advised either to repay Manchester area. By far the largest number involved are veterans who Worth the amount within 30 days after receipt of the letter or Ms. Phelan has to make other arrangements for repayment before’ have studied under the GI Bill and received more tuition Sylvia Porter many years of money than you were entitled to; or yeterans who court action is taken. You will get two follow-up letters, experience in borrowed money under the tuition loan program and each one stronger than the last. Under current policy, providing career never repaid your loans. A smaller number received debts over $1,200 are referred to the Justice Depart-, counseling to high excessive medical payments which should have been ment, which can take the veteran to court, can obtain school and college repaid to the U .S .’Treasury. Most frequehtly, excess payments occur when a liens on property, garnishee salaries and attach bank students in prepara­ Since the final year of Carter’s administration, the veteran who is receiving education aid payments for accounts or other liquid assets the veteran owns. Britain silent on attack plans tion for further government has been stepping up its efforts to collect attending school full-time reduces his or her study The government can also deduct the debt from^ academic work, and these overpayments. The Reagan administration, under schedule to part-time or drops out entirely. Often, the payments due the veteran under other benefit- 2 to individuals Reagan appointeee Robert P. Nimmo, has embraced school or the student is not prompt in notifying the VA of programs. The VA’s policy is not to approve home; the moment it attacked South Georgia that could be used as a this forever,” she said, just hours experiencing job dis- By United Press International the campaign enthusiastically. Big money is involved. the change in status or the VA office is slow in processing guarantees for veterans with overdue payments on; Georgia Sunday. The reimposition springboard for an attack on the after telling a cheering Parliament satisfaction. In South Angela Phelan ’The VA estimates that close to |1 billion has been paid the paperwork. Whatever — the checks for full-time education loans (a policy that brought-in more than $12 Britain reimposed a news of toe blackout fueled speculation Falklands. that Argentine troops had sur­ providing individual to veterans in excess of what was due them under the attendance keep coming to the veteran. ’The excess million in overdue payments last year). i blackout today on its South Atlantic that an attack on the Falklands The Junta also labled “ ludicrous” A tlantic rendered on South Georgia island, career counseling, Ms. Phelan works with people to TTie VA’s sophisticated computer program to aid in; law. Moreover, a new item is being added to the bill: in­ amount is supposed to.be returned to the government, war fleet, whose commander said themselves was imminent. the British government’s report that Ocean 800 miles east of the Falklands. assess their strengths and weaknesses relative to Pacific terest charges. In late 1980, Congress authorized the VA ment. bill collecting, called CARS (Centralized Accounts; was poised to strike toe Falkland In Washington, Esteban Takacs, South G eorgia was recaptured “ We have to judge when is the aptitudes and interests, and'to examine their work Ocean to collect interest for repayments. As a clue to the burden-to-be, the average veteran’s Receivable System) is located in St. Paul, Minn. It; Islands. Argentina’s ambassador to Argentina’s ambassador to the without any deaths. best time for the various military styles and potential for growth in a variety of Until now, the VA has not collected interest. But in the debt to thb government, exclusive of interest and collec­ keeps track of more than a million “ problem” accounts, the OAS charged that British Prime Organization of American States, “ Regretably, and it is lamentable, options with toe least loss of life,” technical and management areas. next few months, after rules and regulations have been tion charges, runs about $800. and programs the billing. Veterans! Be prepared! ’The URUGUAY she said, repeatedly warning that 7 Minister Margaret Thatcher “ wants said that his country’s peace talks there were casualties but we do not Ms. Phelan can be reached through Counseling officially published, any veteran who owes repayments Veterans Administrator Nimmo emphasizes that the collectors are on the wav. „ , , blood” in toe dispute. with Britain “ are suspended” until know precisely how many,” a C HILE “ time is getting extremely short” Affiliates’ Glastonbury office in The Medical ( “ Slyvia Porter’s New Money Book for the 80s,” 1,328 10 .000 ARGENTINE TROOPS ON FALKLANDS to the VA can also expect to be pharged interest — set at agency will use “ compassion and care” in dealing with “ I am not able to give any hostilities cease. military spokesman said. for Argentina to pull out its invasion Center at 659-2697. a level the Treasury is paying currently to borrow short­ individuals being billed. But those are slippery words in pages of down-to-earth advice on personal money; operational news at all about the “ There is no way to come to the The British Defense Ministry forc6S. Argentina’s military government, term money. view of the seriousness of the collection effort. management, is now available through her column.’’ task force,” the chief Defense (bargaining) table while actions are spokesman said the 11,400-ton while pushing its cause before the At 13 percent recently, that’s substantially under the ’The VA has received authority to use its own field at­ Send $9.95 plus $1 for mailing and handling to “ Sylvia, Ministry spokesman said in London. going on and P rim e M inister assault ship Intrepid left Plymouth West. Organization of American States in OR program set 20 percent the IRS charges for late tax payments — but torneys in the collection process, rather than rely on Porter’s New Money Book for the 80s,” in care of this; “ But it would be wrong to jump Margaret Thatcher still wants to join toe Falklands task force to it will still add hefty amounts to the repayment Department of Justice district attorneys who have .not newspaper, 4400 Johnson Drive, Fairway, Kan. 66205. from that to any conclusions about blood,” Takacs said on NBC T V ’s which her sister ship Fearless Washington, received a mixed NEW BRITAIN — A new undergraduate program obligations of many veterans. bothered to open a case involving small sums of money. Make checks payable to Universal Press Syndicate. operational details. At this point “ Today” show, already is attached. response from a crowd of 50,000 peo­ ple gathered outside the presidential designed to produce operations research specialists there is necessity for silence.’’ Takacs called the seizure of South The spokesman also said toe cable palace in Buenos Aires. for business management teams will begin in The spokesman was responding to Georgia by British forces ’’an act of ship Iris has been requisitioned to 1-50 miles-' September at Centrai Connecticut State College. questions about a report In The felony, because (peace) talks were carry supplies to the task force, The crowd demanded the Offered jointly by the Economics and 'Times that a small force of British going on,’ ’ and added that the attack along with the 11,804-ton freighter Falklands remain under the Argen­ Mathematics and Statistics departments in the SBAA opens new loan center troops already had landed on the “ is undermining toe possibilities for Lycaon. 5 p o tine rule imposed April 2, but also — y --- - Schooi of Arts and Sciences at the New Britain Falklands to find a landing site for peaceful settlement.’’ Rear Admiral Sandy Woodward, FALKLAND chanted with the Spanish name for campus, the program is geared to developing skills toe main task force. In Buenos Aires, toe ruling junta commander of toe British fleet In the islands, "Malvinas yes, regime ^ ’The Savings Bank of Manchester has moved its per­ ISLANDS required for operations research careers in The spokesman, asked about toe claimed that about 100 marines on the South Atlantic, told reporters SOUTH GEO^ G I A \ no.” sonal loan operations out of its main office and into a The protesters — shouting “ We business and industry.

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