The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-03-21
Would Liberulize
mum for partial unemployment being
SIP under the law.
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$l2 under the law.
Ohio Has S132, ,4S6,623.0O Reserve
Net contributions and interest col
lected by the Bureau from the pass
age of the law through 1889, totaled
$156, ,14S,74 and interest on this
trust fund amounted to S5,148,325.2S.
During 1889 total of 1924 ,610.74
in contributions and interest was col
lected.
A. J. Altmeyer, Chairman of the
Federal Social Security Board, during
the past week advocated liberalizing
benefits under state laws pointing out
that Ohio and other states" are piling
up surpluses too fast and too great"
Cost of administration of the Ohio
Bureau was given as 1921 ,45O.75, in
cluding s1,026,473.95 which was the
cost of the Employment Service. This
is 5.5 per cent as compared with an
average of 8.5 per cent in all states
according to the report of the Social
Security Board. Costs Of the Ohio
Bureau in relation to net benefits paid
was 1876 per cent.
sought To Liberalize Payments"
Administrator Atkinson, in his re-
port, says: cit is the studied judgment
of Bureau officials that Ohio ought to
liberalize it's benefit payments so that
it's workers who become unemployed
might more easily meet their basic
family needs. Any benefit formula un-
der which nearly three-ffths of the
weekly checks for total unemployment
are less than $11 each can hardly be
considered adequate"
The Board of Review
Reporting on appeals to the Board
of Review from the administrator
decision, the Director says there were
2293 appeals during the year and 1857
} cases disposed of. A total of 1866 de.
cisions were rendered. The Director
was sustained in three fourths Of
these, he says. Nearly three-fifths OF
the claims were initiated by claimants
and two-ffths by employers.
In more than one-third of the ap
peals the issue related to amount Of
, the average weekly wage. In one
, fifth the issue related to eligibility re-
quirement Of employment in 20 weeks
Of the year preceding the date of the
claim. Penalty assessments for claim
ants reported to have quit voluntaril!
without just cause or to have beer
discharged for misconduct, account fol
about ten per cent Of the appeals.
In his report the Administrato
points out that Ohio has no minimum
benefit payment, although experience
has shown that nearly six per cen
Of its payments for weeks of total un
employment amounts to less than SIS
"Adoption of minimum in Ohio,
says the Report would make advisable
! flat earnings requirement in add
ton to employment in 20 weeks in
/ base period of one year as an eligibil
ity requirement"
. Reduction Of the "waiting period
9 requirement from three weeks, as pro
vided in the Ohio law, to two weeks
I is recommended by the Administrator
4 The annual report of the Fedora
Social Security Board shows half tn
States which amended their laws dun
ing the past year reduced the waitin
, period to two weeks. Chairman Alt
. maier in the Social Security Bullet
for January says: "Now that tn
@ States have overcome most admins
: trative difficulties, the waiting perio
+ can we'll be reduced to one week."
Simplifcation of the partial unen
y ployment provision in the Ohio La
q is recommended by Administrator Al
kinson, who described Ohio's systel
{ as zone of the least satisfactory.
q No state" he said "has found salts
factory method of adjusting benefit
r for partial unemployment"
! Atkinson suggests provision tha
r claimants partly employed be entitle
to draw the difference between week.
4 benefit amount for total unemploy
4 ment and their earnings in partial en-
! ployment, plus 81 or So additions
benefit, to encourage them to accer
or seek partial employment.