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Show War Veterans Urged To Preserve Rights Returning veterans who visit local offices of the United States employment Service are being urged to preserve their rights to readjustment allowances as long as possible by accepting essential employment whenever abailable, Mr. W. L. Mildenhall, local office manager, said today. As part of the USES special service program for veterans, the Veterans' Employment Representatives Repre-sentatives stationed in the 1,500 local employment offices has been instructed to explain provisions pro-visions of Title V of the Servicemen's Service-men's Readjustment Act of 1944 pertinent to allowance paying ') and are attempting to co&'jt, any misapprehension on the r :t of service men that the al!i v-ance v-ance is a gratuity, Mr. Mild .1-hall .1-hall declared. f Although any determination regarding disqualification of a veteran to receive readjustment allowance remains the responsibility respon-sibility of the unemployment compensation agency concerned, the USES is charged with the responsibility re-sponsibility of providing the agency with information about refusal to accept suitable employment em-ployment without good cause. In the veterans' job placement program, Mr. Mildenhall stated, 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 of illness ill-ness or disability occuring after commencement of a period of continuous unemployment. Under Title V of the readjustment readjust-ment act, veterans retain the right to 52 weeks of readjustment readjust-ment allowances until two years after the end of the war, or following fol-lowing 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 restric-tions under WMC regulations. However, Mr. Mildenhall pointed point-ed out, many veterans are eager to augment, in a civilian capacity, the contributions they have already al-ready made as soldiers to the war. |