{"id":5275,"date":"2016-08-20T08:02:07","date_gmt":"2016-08-20T13:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=5275"},"modified":"2016-08-19T23:45:37","modified_gmt":"2016-08-20T04:45:37","slug":"the-purpose-of-the-veterans-pension-papers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2016\/08\/20\/the-purpose-of-the-veterans-pension-papers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Purpose of the Veteran&#8217;s Pension Papers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Statements and affidavits are not in a military pension for arbitrary reasons. <a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/pensionapplying.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5276 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/pensionapplying-258x300.jpg\" alt=\"pensionapplying\" width=\"258\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/pensionapplying-258x300.jpg 258w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/pensionapplying.jpg 415w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 258px) 100vw, 258px\" \/><\/a>Typically the veteran may have to show or document:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>his service<\/li>\n<li>his injury received or illness contracted during the war<\/li>\n<li>how he qualifies for a pension under a specific act<\/li>\n<li>need<\/li>\n<li>that he was the same guy who enlisted<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Widows need to provide additional documentation. There may be papers that appear extraneous, but there usually was a reason.<\/p>\n<p>A big thanks to\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/1608GT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">GenealogyBank<\/a><\/em> for being our sponsor! Please check out their August offer for\u00a0<em>Tip of the Day<\/em> readers, fans, and followers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statements and affidavits are not in a military pension for arbitrary reasons. Typically the veteran may have to show or document: his service his injury received or illness contracted during the war how he qualifies for a pension under a specific act need that he was the same guy who enlisted Widows need to provide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}