the ridgefunner • friday, february 4, 1972
Jobless ? Read This —
You May Be Eligible
For Financial Benefits
WASHINGTON, D. C. (CPS)—
More than a million jobless per
sons who have used up their un
employment benefits are entitled
to a new round of payments this
year.
Most of them don’t know about
it. And unless someone tells them,
they won’t get it.
Newspaper, radio and television
coverage has been skimpy, at
best. And despite a prod from the
Labor Department, many state
employment services have not
yet made an effort to track down
persons who have been dropped
from the unemployment rolls—
and who may be eligible for an
additional 13 weeks of payments.
There are actually two new
programs that take effect this
month and next—both based on
laws passed by Congress to extend
the normal 26 weeks of unem
ployment compensation during
periods when jobs are scarce.
There were two types of “trig
gers” provided by the law to put
the program into effect—and to
halt the program when job con
ditions improve. One is for a
national program; the other
triggers state programs when there
is no national program in effect.
Under the law, the program
would take effect nationwide when
the “insured unemployment rate”
has been 4.5 per cent or higher
for three consecutive months.
When the rate' drops below that
level for a comparable period,
the program is phased out.
The earliest date the nationwide
trigger could be applied was Jan.
1, 1972. And that’s the date it
went into effect because the in
sured unemployment rate for the
last three months of available
statistics stayed above 4.5 per cent.
That put the program immed
iately into effect in every state
except Kentucky, where the
legislature has not yet passed a
required enabling law. Kentucky
is expected to complete action
shortly.
Even before the national pro
gram took effect, some states
already were under the extended
benefit program because of the
state trigger feature of 1970 law.
Under this provision, when
there is no nationwide program,
extended benefits will be paid
in any state with an insured un
employment rate of at least 4
per cent for three consecutive
months—provided the rate is at
least 20 per cent higher than the
average of the past two years for
the same period of time.
During the period before Jan.' 1,
1972, 22 states qualified under the
state trigger point formula. But
eight of them subsequently were
“triggered off,” leaving 14 states
paying extended benefits at the
endofl97l.
What of the unemployed
workers in states which have had
the extended benefit programs in
effect—and who already have use
up their 13-week extension?
They are not affepted by the
national program because they
have '■'ready been covered by
its pro\ sions.
But most of them, starting in
Feb., will be eligible for still
another 13-week extension under
the Magnuson Act that passed
Congress last month.
This is a temporary law,
scheduled to phased out in July,
and the Nixon Administration
had tried unsuccessfully to
block its passage.
It provides a further 13 weeks of
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benefits—bringing the maximum
duration to 52 weeks—in states
with the highest unemployment.
To trigger eligibility under the
Magnuson bill, the state’s in
sured unemployment rate must
be at least 6.5 per cent. But the
method of computing the rate is
somewhat liberalized by including
as inusred unemployed a portion
of workers who have already
exhausted their unemployment
benefits.
Because the data to detevine
eligibility will be compiled on Jan.
30 when the program begins, the
Labor Department was unable
to list the states where the program
will operate.
But earlier data indicated that
Alaska, California, Connecticut,
Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan,
Nevada, New Jersey, Puerto
Rico, Rhode Island, Vermont and
Washington will probably be
included.
States that might qualify in
clude Oregon and New York.
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (CPS)—
Two University of Michigan
students are facing expulsion for
using a commercial term paper
writing service.
The service sold both students
identical papers, who, unknow
ingly, turned them in to the same
English professor.
The company told each student
that he received an original
term paper which would be the
only one at the university.
In addition, in May of this year,
two Harvard students were found
to have used this service. One was
expelled and the other suspended
for one year.
University of Michigan English
Department Chairman Charles
Hagelman said a student using
this type of service may face
university expulsion. “Only the
student stands to lose by using
this service,” Hagelman said.
Sanford Dean, Psychology
Department chairman, said if
the students can buy term papers,
"why don’t we sell them course
credits or degrees?”
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