The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-04-13
JOB INSURANCE
INFORMATION
Questions and Answers


ton about Job insurance?
A.-The most common question is
: "Am | eligible for benefits?" Of
| course, some one must then explain
that only the unemployed who worked
, in the required 20 weeks out of the
last So are eligible. This 20 weeks
work must have been performed for
one or more employers covered by the
Ilaw.
: Q.-What single point about job in
Isurance seems to be the most cOnfus-
ing to workers covered by the law?
Al would say that it is the work
ers' belief that they are entitled to job
insurance because their employers de-
Quoted part Of their wages for So
cial Security. Social Security de-
duction has no connection with "job
: insurance" 1t is made for the workers
; oldage benefits under the Social Sc
/, curity Act 1t is for old-age benefits
and has nothing whatever to do with
. unemployment compensation. The only
way to get job insurance benefits is
to earn your right to them by work
ing certain period for an employer
covered by the law.
Q.-Only those who are eligible,
able and available for work can get
benefits. Isn't that right?
Ayes. If person lost his job be-
cause of sickness or injury, he cannot
!. receive benefits because he must be
able to accept suitable job if found
for him by the Ohio State Employment
Service division.
, Q.-Why does it take so long to get
-. a job insurance check?
A.-First, person must serve a
threeweeks waiting period. The wait
ing period begins when he registers
for work. His unemployment for
which he receives benefits does not be-
gin until the waiting period is over.
SO the first week for which he is paid
will be the fourth week after he reg
listers. And of course he must wait
until his fourth week is completed be-
fore the check is prepared.
Q.-Where does the unemployed
person go to receive his benefit checks?
> A.-The checks are mailed to the
claimants last known address directly
from the Bureaus central office in Co.
lumbus.
Q.-How about the remaining checks
one is to receive?
}. A.-They are also sent to the unem-
ployed workers home.
Q.-After worker files his claim
at the nearest local office, how often
must he return to that office in order
to keep on receiving checks?
Ale must report back to the To-
cal office at least once each week, or
as often as instructed by the people
: in the local office.
Q.-How soon. afteys fling a., claim
at local office may person COM
mence to draw benefits?
A.-The earliest possible time would
be the fifth week after filing claim
Q.-Why does he have to report
each week, if his checks will be sent
to his home?
J, Ale is required to report to the
local office to accept any suitable
work which the employment service
might find for him in the meantime,
and also to renew his claim each week.
! Q.-HOw does he renew his claim
for benefits?
:. A.-When he receives benefit
check weekly payment order" for
benefits is attached to the check which
:! is mailed to the claimants home. He
detaches this payment order from the
check and takes it to the local office
where it is filled out for his next
weeks check These payment orders
are forwarded by the local office to the
bureaus Columbus headquarters each
day.
GA corporation stated to en-
ployes that it will not tell the claim
amt how much was earned during the
certifying periods to which they wish
to certify, saying that it is the job
of the BUC to find out. We believe
this is unjust to the claimant since we
are not doing the certifying for the
claimant. What is the answer?
A.-Claimant can ask for Glow
earnings report" which works on the
same basis as a separation report.
THE employer must furnish these re-
ports or be subject to penalty for not
complying with the Bureaus demands.
Section 1345-lS and %.
"a claimant has had dual en-
Iployment on, let us say, a 6O4O basis.
Both employers give him a separation
report. How are his benefits charged
to individual employers? Is he work
ing for himself as an independent con-
tractor?
! A.-Beneits paid to the claimant
: will be charged against the respective
accounts of the employers in the pro-
Iportion that the total wages earned
by such claimant in employment of
each employer bears to the total wages
received by such claimant from all
employers during the same period,
subject to the limitations provided for
in Section 1345-4 Co G of the Ohio
| Unemployment Compensation Act.
Whether or not he is an independent
contractor would depend upon the re-
lationship existing between the claim
ant and the employer.
! Q.-Whcn an employer files an eX-
: ccptiOn report to a claim, will he be