The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1939-08-17
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Get Job Insurance

Iet JOO insurance
E. H. Thiede, field agent for
the Railroad Retirement board,
stationed at Billings announced
today that railroad employees
who meet certain requirements
may register for unemployment
insurance benefits with M. L.
Snow, agent for the Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy railroad
at Hardin.
He stated that railroad work.
ers who are employed and who
earned $3.50 or more in 1888
railroad work may now get
benefits under the Railroad
Unemployment Insurance act,
which went into effective opera
ton July l.
Such unemployed workers
should register and file a claim
for the benefits at the last
railroad for which they worked,
or, if located at some distance
away from their last job, at the
nearest office of a railroad.
The Railroad Unemployment
Insurance act is a federal act
establishing a national system
of unemployment insurance for
railroad workers. The act is
administered by the Railroad
Retirement board, which also
administers the Railroad Retire
ment act. The plan of operation
worked out in cooperation with
railroad employers and labor
organizations provides for
prompt handling of claims and
payment of benefits. All the un-
employed applicant has to do
is to go to the foreman on his
last job, who, if not himself
authorized to accept registra-
lions will be able Immediately
to put the applicant in touch
with the person who is so auth
orized.
the Importance of registra-
ton by the worker when he
becomes unemployed or as soon
thereafter as possible, the Board
pointed out, lies in the fact
that his days of unemployment
cannot count either toward his
waiting period" or as days OF
unemployment for which he will
receive benefits, until he reg
listers and properly files his
claim. .
Benefits under the Railroad
Unemployment Insurance act
are paid for each day over sew.
en- that an eligible railroad
worker is unemployed in any
fifteen consecutive days. This
means that if a worker is to-
tally unemployed for the fif-
teen days, he cam draw eight
days of benefits. If he should
be unemployed eight days, he
would get one day Of benefit;
if unemployed nine days, two
days of benefit, and so on:
The benefit rates vary from
$1.75 to $500 per day, depend
ing on the workers earnings
for 1888. Thus total benefits in
any fifteen-day period of total
unemployment will range from
$14.5O to $24. The most a total
iw unemployed worker can draw
in any twelve-month period IS
80 times his. daily benefit rate,
or from $40. so to $240, scaled
according to what he earned in
the railroad industry in 1888.
To be eligible for unemploy-
ment insurance benefits under
the Railorad Unemployment In.
surance act, the employee must
meet the following requirem-
mentS:
1. He must have earned $3.50
or more from a railroad or 9TH
er employment covered by the
Railroad Unemployment 1nsur-
ance act during the calendar
year, 1888.
2. He must register and serve
a waiting period of IS consecu.
tive days in which there are at
least eight days of unemploy-
ment.
3. He must not have become
disqualified for benefits due to
any of the causes specifically
set forth in the act.
All further information with
reference to eligibility or dis
qualifications for benefits will be
provided to the worker at the
time he registers.