Chapter VIII 
VERIFICATION OF ELIGIBILITY 
Importance of Verification 
Verifying the facts of eligibility is most important. When 
the camp commanding officer discovers, for example, that an enrollee 
who has been selected and certified as seventeen years old is, in fact 
only sixteen, he must, under the CCC law and regulations, discharge 
that youth. Y/hen it is necessary to discharge a youth under this or 
any circumstance, there are three unfortunate results: 
1. The expensive process of examining, transporting, equip¬ 
ping, feeding and housing the youth has all been wasted. 
The amount of waste incurred by the U. S, Government is 
from $25 to $125 per enrollee wrongly selected, depend¬ 
ing upon the distance the enrollee is transported by 
train to camp. 
2. The psychological effect upon the youth is not at all 
good. It is a mistake and a defeat at a time in his 
life when success is of great importance. One of the 
purposes of the Corps is to build self-confidence, not 
to shatter it. 
3. When an enrollee is discharged for erroneous enrollment, 
a vacancy is left which cannot be filled until the next 
enrollment period. Ordinarily, therefore, every errone¬ 
ous enrollment deprives a qualified applicant from ob¬ 
taining the opportunities and advantages of the Corps 
for a period of three months. It deprives the community 
of the value of the enrollment of one of its members, in¬ 
cluding the value of the allotment to a family. 
Sources of Information 
Age (17 to 23?) : 
Birth certificate 
Transcript of birth record 
Church records 
School records 
Bible records 
Citizenship : Determine place of birth. (This can usually 
be done in conjunction with the verification of age, and by the same 
methods.) If bom in the United States, applicant has citizenship 
status; if bora outside the United States, naturalization papers or 
proof of American citizenship status is necessary. 
Family records 
Hospital records 
Insurance policies or records 
Physicians records 
