B-156068, MAY 7, 1965
Highlights
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES: REFERENCE IS MADE TO YOUR RECENT CORRESPONDENCE RELATIVE TO A CLAIM PREVIOUSLY FILED BY YOU ON BEHALF OF MANY FILIPINOS WHO SERVED UNDER YOUR COMMAND IN A GUERRILLA UNIT DURING WORLD WAR II. YOUR CLAIM WAS PRESENTED AS ONE FOR MILITARY PAY AND ALLOWANCES BASED ON THE GUERRILLA SERVICE OF THOSE INDIVIDUALS AND WE EXPLAINED TO YOU THAT SUCH A CLAIM COULD NOT BE CONSIDERED AFTER A DELAY OF APPROXIMATELY 20 YEARS. THERE IS NO EVIDENCE IN OUR OFFICE TO INDICATE THAT ANY ENTITLEMENT EXISTED TO PAY AND ALLOWANCES ON ACCOUNT OF ANY MILITARY SERVICE PERFORMED BY THE PERSONS WHOSE NAMES YOU FURNISHED. THE CLAIM WAS NOT PRESENTED WITHIN THE STATUTORY PERIOD OF 10 YEARS AND WE CAN DO NOTHING MORE THAN REITERATE THAT FOR THAT REASON SUCH CLAIM IS BARRED FROM CONSIDERATION BY THE ACT OF OCTOBER 9.
B-156068, MAY 7, 1965
TO MAJOR GENERAL ALEJANDRO F. ARANDIA, REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES:
REFERENCE IS MADE TO YOUR RECENT CORRESPONDENCE RELATIVE TO A CLAIM PREVIOUSLY FILED BY YOU ON BEHALF OF MANY FILIPINOS WHO SERVED UNDER YOUR COMMAND IN A GUERRILLA UNIT DURING WORLD WAR II. YOUR CLAIM WAS PRESENTED AS ONE FOR MILITARY PAY AND ALLOWANCES BASED ON THE GUERRILLA SERVICE OF THOSE INDIVIDUALS AND WE EXPLAINED TO YOU THAT SUCH A CLAIM COULD NOT BE CONSIDERED AFTER A DELAY OF APPROXIMATELY 20 YEARS.
THERE IS NO EVIDENCE IN OUR OFFICE TO INDICATE THAT ANY ENTITLEMENT EXISTED TO PAY AND ALLOWANCES ON ACCOUNT OF ANY MILITARY SERVICE PERFORMED BY THE PERSONS WHOSE NAMES YOU FURNISHED. HOWEVER, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER OR NOT ANY ENTITLEMENT TO SUCH PAY EVER EXISTED, THE CLAIM WAS NOT PRESENTED WITHIN THE STATUTORY PERIOD OF 10 YEARS AND WE CAN DO NOTHING MORE THAN REITERATE THAT FOR THAT REASON SUCH CLAIM IS BARRED FROM CONSIDERATION BY THE ACT OF OCTOBER 9, 1940, CH. 788, 54 STAT. 1061.