Evening star., 1936-07-31
9,S48 EMPLOYERS
PLACE S845,065
IN JObLESS FUND
But approximately 5000
Fail to Make Payments,
Marshall Says.
ESTIMATES $1,000
SHOULD PARTICIPATE
Receipt of Benefits by Idle Sched-
uled to Begin in Jam
uary, 1888.

Some 5000 washington employers
20 date have failed to make monthly
payments for the unemployment COM
pensation program, according to es-
Inmates made today after Director
John A. Marshall of the District Un-
employment Compensation Insurance
Board, reported collection of $845, ,065
since January from 9,848 employers.
Marshall consistently has estimat-
ed there are approximately $4,000 en-
ployers in Washington who should
make payments. He said today he had
no sure way yet of establishing this
belief, but q list of employers he is
using was compiled in part from names
registered with the District Unem-
ployment Compensation Commission.
Several months ago Marshall esti-
mated there were apparently about
10000 employers who through ignor-
ance or otherwise had not been
making monthly reports on pay rolls
and the per cent tax which will pre-
vail through this year. He sent field
agents to interview employers to ex-
plain the law to them and the number
Of reporting employers was consider
ably increased.
$945,065 ON Deposit.
In addition to payments from re-
porting employers, the District Gov
ernment has paid its 100000 contri-
button, bringing the total unemploy-
ment insurance fund deposited with
the Treasury to $945,o65.
For the present fiscal year, the Dis
trict government will contribute $685.
600 and in addition will have the obli-
cation of making the l per cent pay
dred employees who are not included In
the District government retirement
syStem. Payment of this oblgati IN
TOR the fiscal year 1887 as well as back
dues for 1885, will depend upon a
separate appropriation by Congress.
Payment of benefits to the unem-
ployed is scheduled to start in Janu-
arytl933, under the terms Of the act.
The filing of pay roll returns and
assessments started as of January,
1896, two-year period being allowed
to build up the fund for workers who
become unemployed.
Monthly Collections.
Marshall's report today showed
monthly collections of pay roll assess
ments as follows:
For January, $127,42e; February,
8136,70o; March, $144,338; April,
s143,147; May, $151,243, and June,
s142,205.
The report for the six months would
indicate that for the first year Of
operation the board will collect more
than s1,600, 900, not counting on any
possible increase in the next six
months Of reporting employers.
The board today announced it had
granted exemption from the pay roll
assessments to the Salvation Army
and to the Smithsonian Institution.
The Salvation Army was exempted on
the ground that it is charitable and
religious organization, and the insti-
tuition on the grounds it is a scientific
body, in the nature of a govern
mental instrumentality.
Applications Approved.
Approval of 100 additional applica-
tions for old age assistance was re-
ported today by the Board of Public
Welfare, bringing the total to 578.
The monthly payments now amount
TO $l4,704, or an average Of about $25
per person. The additional cases were
recommended by Miss M. Alice Hill,
head Of the Public Assistance Division.
Previously there were 47S cases, re-
ceiving $12,075 during July.
The welfare board also has ap-
proved 13 additional cases for aid to
the needy blind, bringing the total to
&7, who have been granted $1,092
month, or an average of about $23.