Show Persons Ma May Receive Both Age Benefits and P Public Aid Editors Editor's note Because of the Intense public interest in the federal social security law and the Utah unemployment compensation law The Telegram are has the explained concluding all aU details articles of the acts thoroughly in a series of articles These 18 8 Q The Utah unemployment compensation compensation cornI com corn I U law has endeavored to o se set up an administration system which permits the expeditious handling hanling han- han ling dung of claims for unemployment compensation and at the same time does oes not interfere with legitimate differences of opinion which can can only be settled by courts In making claims for benefits the procedure is about as follows When a claim is made it is ts Immediately immediately immediately im im- Im- Im mediately referred to a deputy of the unemployment compensation division who determines the validity validity valid- valid I ity ty of the claim the amount due the time for which it is due and any any ny other pertinent information When lie he has made this decision he ha notifies the parties concerned and nd a a. period of five d days ys is allowed for or appeal In case there is an appeal l it goes to what is known as the appeal appeal ap peal tribunal tribuna This tribunal may maye be e one or three persons In case it is one person he is Ls an n examiner designated by the state industrial commission In case the appeal tribunal Is composed of three the chairman must be an examiner of the state industrial commission The employer designates one ne member member mem mem- ber and ber-and and the employ s designate a member I If the action of the appeal tribunal tribunal tri tri- bunal is not satisfactory the commission commission com corn mission itself may act The commission commission com corn mission may base its claim on Information in information information in- in formation at hand or may call for new information If the decision of the industrial commission does not meet with the approval of one of the contending parties appeal may be taken di directly directly directly di- di to the th state supreme court The findings of the industrial commission commission com corn mission as to the facts shall be deemed conclusive by the supreme court unless fraud can be shown Inthe in inthe inthe the matter of determining the facts In the supreme court the unemployment unemployment compensation case caseb has s the right of way over all other civil cases excepting workmen's com corn The question is asked Suppose a person is granted compensation and later the courts hold that the Industrial industrial industrial indus indus- trial commission or its agents erred and the person is entitled to com corn The law provides that in such cases the employer will not have the compensation claim charged against his account but any part of the benefits which h had hd d been paid to the is the property of the When the benefits are due payment t begins and no court action can hold up those payments If the industrial commission or its agents give a wrong decision and pay someone whom the courts say was not entitled to that compensation compensation tion Lion the benefits so paid are charged against the pool but no not against any individual employer 18 f I 8 O Can a person receive both old- old I O I age benefits and public assistance assistance assis assis- t tance ance for the aged It will be possible for a person to r receive both old age benefits and s some ome form of public assistance for t the he aged This might occur in a case in which a mans man's old age benefit would be small because he had worked only five or six years before re- re tring tying Suppose the mans man's benefit amounted to 15 a month If the state in which he be lives has a system system tem tern of old age assistance and the payments to the needy aged under this plan are more than 15 a month he can apply for this assistance as assistance as- as on the basis of his need Such cases Would become less and less numerous as more people began to receive substantial old age benefits As the number of those aged 65 and more who received theold the theold theold old age benefits increased the need of people of this age to receive public public pub pub- lic ho assistance would diminish |