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Assistant Administrator for Planning and Evaluation---- EDWIN L. ARNOLD.
Deputy Assistant Administrator for Planning and

Evaluation

Director, Information Service___.

Associate Director_-_

Assistant Director, News and Liaison__.

Assistant Director, Radio and Television_ Assistant Director, Magazines and Projects__ Director, Contract Compliance Service_-_Deputy Director____

Manager, Administrative Services_.

Assistant Manager

Chief Medical Director, Department of Medicine and Surgery

Deputy Chief Medical Director___

Associate Deputy Chief Medical Director for Operations

Assistant Chief Medical Director for Policy and Planning

Assistant Chief Medical Director for Extended Care___ Assistant Chief Medical Director for Professional Services

Assistant Chief Medical Director for Administration__ Assistant Chief Medical Director for Academic Affairs. Assistant Chief Medical Director for Research and Development

Assistant Chief Medical Director for Dentistry----Chief Benefits Director, Department of Veterans BenefitsDeputy Chief Benefits Director__.

Field Director, Area 1 (New England-Middle Atlantic) Field Director, Area 2 (South Atlantic-South Central) Field Director, Area 3 (North Central).

Field Director, Area 4 (Western).

Director, Budget Staff___.

Director, Management Staff.

Director, Compensation and Pension Service__.
Director, Education and Rehabilitation Service---

Director, Veterans Assistance Service_-__

Director, Administrative Service..

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JOHN J. WILLIAMS.
FRANK R. HOOD.
JOHN F. RADOWICH.
STRATTON M. APPLEMAN.
ROBERT D. BLACHLY.
DONALD R. FoxVOG.
NATHANIEL H. PIERSON.
SANDRA H. ROBINSON.
M. W. BUCKALEW.
WILLA V. ROBUCK.

JOHN D. CHASE, M.D. LAURANCE V. FOYE, JR., M.D

THOMAS J. FITZGERALD, M.D.

HERBERT M. BAGANZ, M.D. RICHARD N. FILER, Acting.

PAUL A. L. Haber, M.D. JACK S. WESTALL. WILLIAM D. MAYER, M.D.

THOMAS F. NEWCOMB, M.D.
A. J. AARONIAN, D.D.S.
(VACANCY).

A. J. BOCHICCHIO.
DOROTHY L. STARBUCK.
MAURICE L. HOWELLS.
JOHN W. HAGAN, JR.
RAY E. SMITH.
ALEX S. KRaut.
G. T. CAWLEY.
J. C. PECKARSKY.
A. H. THORNTON.
JAMES J. COX.
(VACANCY).
R. C. COON.
RALPH E. SMITH.

WILLIAM R. MARTIN.

HERBERT SEifert.
HARRY J. CLARKE,
WALTER A. HAAS.

HERBERT J. MULQUEEN.
WALTER R. WILSON.

MATTHEW C. DILLON.
JOHN W. MAHAN.

CARL T. NOLL.

CHARLES E. JARVIS, Acting.
DONALD M. SKINDER.

BENJAMIN R. WALTHALL.

EARL W. ZIEG.

BOBBIE R. Beller.

DONALD L. WARDLE.

VINCENT L. CORRADO.

GALEN OLMSTEAD.

Director, National Cemetery Supervising Office:

Philadelphia, Pa‒‒‒‒

Atlanta, Ga._____

San Francisco, Calif_____

NICHOLAS G. HAMATY. DEAN W. HOLT. JAMES M. GRIFFIN.

A thorough system of benefits for veterans and dependents is administered by the Veterans Administration (VA). These benefits include compensation payments for disabilities or death related to military service; pension based on financial need for totally disabled veterans or certain survivors for disabilities or death not related to military service; education and rehabilitation; home loan guaranty; burial, including cemeteries, markers, flags, etc.; and a comprehensive medical program involving a widespread system of nursing homes, clinics, and more than 170 hospitals.

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The Veterans Administration established as an independent agency under the President by Executive Order 5398 of July 21, 1930, in accordance with the act of July 3, 1930 (46 Stat. 1016). This act authorized the President to consolidate and coordinate the U.S. Veterans Bureau, Bureau of Pensions, and National Home for Volunteer Soldiers.

The Board of Veterans Appeals has statutory jurisdiction to decide appeals to the Administrator for benefits under all laws administered by the Veterans Administration (38 U.S.C. 4001-4009; 38 CFR 19.1-19.3). Decisions are final, except as to issues on insurance contracts which are subject to action in the Federal district courts.

Medicine and Surgery

The Department of Medicine and Surgery provides hospital, nursing home and domiciliary care, and outpatient medical and dental care to eligible veterans of military service in the Armed Forces. It operates 171 hospitals, 16 domiciliaries, 218 clinics, and 88 nursing home units in 193 cities in the U.S., the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the Republic of the Philippines, and provides for similar care under VA auspices in non-VA hospitals and community nursing homes, and for visits by veterans to non-VA physicians and dentists for outpatient treatment. The Department also supports veterans under care

in hospitals, nursing homes, and domiciliaries operated by 31 States. Under the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Veterans Administration (CHAMPVA), dependents of certain deceased veterans are provided with medical care supplied by non-VA institutions and physicians. The Department conducts both individual medical and health-care delivery research projects and multi-hospital research programs. It assists in the education of physicians and dentists, and with training of many other health care professionals through affiliations with educational institutions and organizations. These programs are all conducted as prescribed by the Administrator of Veterans Affairs pursuant to sections 4101-4115 of title 38 of the United States Code, and other statutory authority and regulations.

Veterans Benefits

The Department of Veterans Benefits conducts an integrated program of veteran benefits:

COMPENSATION AND PENSION

The Compensation and Pension Service has responsibility for: claims for disability compensation and pension; for automobile allowances and special adaptive equipment; claims for specially adapted housing; special clothing allowances; emergency officer's retirement pay; eligibility determinations based on military service.

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Combined Regional Office and Insurance Center, Philadelphis office has staff responsibility for agency insurance programs.

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for other VA benefits and services or those of other Government agencies; survivor's claims for death compensation, dependency and indemnity compensation, death pension, burial and plot allowance claims; claims for accrued benefits; forfeiture determinations; and claims for adjusted compensation in death cases.

EDUCATION AND REHABILITATION

The Education and Rehabilitation Service administers programs for vocational rehabilitation of disabled veterans, readjustment educational benefits for veterans of post-Korean conflict service, and educational assistance and special restorative training for spouses, surviving spouses, and children of veterans who are permanently and totally disabled or die from disability incurred or aggravated in active service in the Armed Forces, or are prisoners of war or are missing in action.

LOAN GUARANTY

The mission is to provide credit assistance whereby the housing credit needs of eligible veterans and active duty service personnel may be satisfied by private capital on more liberal terms than generally available to non-veterans. Assistance is provided chiefly through substituting the Government's guaranty on loans made by private lenders in lieu of the downpayments, shorter terms, and other requirements generally required in conventional home mortgage transactions. Where private capital is not available in nonurban areas, direct loans may be made.

In addition, a system of direct financial grants is operated to help certain permanently disabled veterans to acquire specially adapted housing.

The major activities include appraising properties to establish their values; supervising the construction of new residential properties; passing on the ability of a veteran to repay a loan and his credit risk; servicing and liquidating defaulted loans; and disposing of real estate acquired as the consequence of defaulted loans. There

are also substantial operations involved in managing and realizing loan assets. A counseling service is conducted to aid potential minority homebuyers both in obtaining housing credit and in discharging their obligations as homeowners and mortgagors.

INSURANCE

VA life insurance operations are for the benefit of servicemen, veterans, and their beneficiaries. The day-to-day processing of all matters related to individual insurance accounts is handled by two field locations.

Insurance activities include:

Complete maintenance of all individual insurance accounts (policies); authorization of policy loans, cash surrenders, and matured endowments; exchange and conversion of policy plans; development of insurance death claims and the authorization of payment to the beneficiary; development of disability insurance claims to support waiver of premium or disability insurance award payments in behalf of the insured; allotments from pay for members of the military departments; payroll deductions for employees of large commercial employers; establishing relationship of individual death or disability to extra hazard of military service for assessment to proper funding accounts; any other transaction which may have a bearing upon the total responsibility for the insurance program.

In addition, the VA is responsible for:

Supervision of the Servicemen's Group Life Insurance (SGLI) and Veterans Group Group Life Insurance (VGLI) Programs for today's service members and veterans. The Veterans' Insurance Act of 1974 (88 Stat. 165; 38 U.S.C. 765-779), effective May 24, 1974, has substantially amended the law authorizing SGLI. The new law provided for the conversion of SGLI to a 5-year nonrenewable term policy known as Veterans Group Life Insurance (VGLI). At the termination of the 5-year term period, it may be con

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