Salt Lake Telegram | 1949-07-07 | Page 19 | Jobless Benefits Denied Most Utah Students

JOBLESS BENEFITS DENIED MOST UTAH STUDENTS High school students unable to get summer vacation Jobs are finding idleness has no market value in Utah. In some states these students unable to find summer Jobs this year are drawing unemployment compensation. ' But amendments to the employment security act, pasaed " by the last Utah legislature, have made it unlikely that many stirSents will qualify for unemployment compensation. Before 1947, department officials explained Thursday, worker, including a high school student, could qualify for minimum job insurance by earning $150 in one year. Legislation Legis-lation that went into effect July 1, 1949. required that worker must lave earned $352 during the benefit year beginning be-ginning July 1, 1948, and ending June 30, 1949, to qualify for the ' minimum. He must also have worked -at least two days in each of 19 weeka during the benefit year. The law was passed, officials continued, so that seasonal sea-sonal workers, such as students, could not easily reap unemployment un-employment compensation benefits which might tend to foster the idea in the head of a youth that idleness has a Lmarket value. Some 1800 unskilled workers mainly students eur- rently are seeking Jobs, the local employment off ice reported.