| Show Your Unemployment j Insurance Benefits I In recent weeks the rise in unemployment unemployment unemployment has brought unemployed resi residents residents I dents of Summit and Wasatch Counties to the local Employment Security office for the purpose of signing up for unemployment benefits fo for the first time tune Many questions Indicate only a slight knowledge of the law said Manager Manager Manager Mana Mana- ger ger Donald Beall Unemployment Compensation explained ex explained explained ex- ex Mr Beall is ls not a dole nor Isit is isit isit it charity in any form It is actually a type of Insurance in which policies are held by some Utah workers The purpose is to protect working men and women against total loss of income for fora a limited length of time tune while they are unemployed through no fault of their own One of the more popular misconceptions as pointed out by Manager Beall is the idea that workers pay part of the c cost of their unemployment insurance This he said is not true In Utah The I money used to pay benefits Is put up by employers who pay a certain percentage of their taxable payrolls into the unemployment unemployment unemployment trust fundA fund A Another n not o t h her e r misunderstanding said Manager Beall has to to- todo do with the length of time tune r required to pay that first benefit check Without a doubt anyone who loses his Job is under economic economic econ econ- pressure This may account for the fact act that some of our claimants obviously obviously obviously expect a check to b be handed to them them hem on their first or second visits Usually the claimant will receive his first check on his third visit to the local office What many people fall fail to realize is ia that hat this is essentially an Insurance program program program pro pro- gram and that the taking of claims and the he payment of benefits are subject to all of the checks and balances commonly common- common ly y found in a commercial Insurance operation Not only for the protection of the unemployed worker must these checks be e made said Mr Beall but also for the benefit of all workers who have a stake staken in n Utah's Unemployment Compensation res reserve fund must every precaution be taken |
