Claim for Remaining Share of Pay and Allowances Reserved for Father

This concerns a claim by a mother for the remaining one-half share of the pay and allowances reserved for the father of their late son. The father would have been entitled to the remaining one-half of the amount due to the son if he had filed a timely claim. That claim, as did her claim, accrued on June 25, 1953, when evidence sufficient to establish their son's death was received by the Secretary of the Army. Since the father did not make a claim within 10 full years after that date (June 24, 1963), his claim became barred from consideration by virtue of the barring act, 31 U.S.C. 71a.