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Show Returning War Yets Are Advised To Accept Employment Returning veterans who visit local offices of the United States Employment Em-ployment Service are being urged to preserve their rights to readjustment re-adjustment allowances as long as possible by accepting essential employment whenever available, Charles E. Pickett, local office manager, said today. As part of the USES special program for veterans, the Veterans' Veter-ans' Employment Representatives stationed in the 1,500 local employment em-ployment offices have been instructed in-structed to explain provisions of Title V of the Servicemen's Readjustment Re-adjustment Act of 1944 pertaining to allowance payments and are attempting to correct any misapprehension mis-apprehension on the part of service serv-ice men that the allowance is a gratuity, Mr. Pickett declared. Although any determination regarding re-garding disqualification of a veteran vet-eran to receive readjustment allowances remains the responsibility responsi-bility of the unemployment compensation com-pensation agency concerned, the USES is charged with the responsibility respon-sibility of providing the agency with information about refusal to accept suitable employment without with-out good cause. In the veterans' job placement program, USES interviewers are following the same procedure with respect to compensation as are used in connection with non-veteran claimants, except that a veteran may file a continued claim for a period in which he is unavailable for employment because be-cause of illness or disability occuring after commencement of a period of continuous unemployment. unemploy-ment. Under Title V of the readjustment readjust-ment act, veterans retain the right to 52 weeks of readjustment allowance until two years after the end of the war, or following discharge, whichever is later. In offering veterans referral to employment, USES interviewers are making continued efforts to induce veterans to accept high priority jobs even though they are not subject to any restrictions under WMC regulations. However, Mr. Pickett pointed out, many veterans are eager to augment, in a civilian capacity, the contributions they have already al-ready made as soldiers to the war. |