The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-11-09
5~e|f-Emp|oyed Veterans
World War May
File Allowance Claims

Jackson, Especially c.. B. Cameron.
Executive Director of the Mississippi
Unemployment Compensation Commits
sion announces that commencing No.
vember l, self-employed veterans of
World War ii may file for readjust-
ment allowances. The maximum allow
ance for any one month is 500, and
from this amount the net earnings from
the veterans self-employment will be
deducted. These net earnings will be de-
termined on a cash basis rather than on
an actual basis. Hence, the deductions
for any month will depend on the cash
actually received. However, wages, COM
missions, and like payments received
during the month for services perform
I'd in previous months are also deduc-
tible, the Executive Director explained.
Each month of allowance for self-em-
ployment will use up five weeks of the
veterans unemployment allowances.
The number of weeks of allowances
to which a veteran is entitled depends
upon his length of active military serv-
ice between September 16. 1910, and the
close of the war. The first requirement
is that the veteran must not have been
dishonorably discharged. If his dis
charge were not dishonorable and if he
had been in active service for 80 days
prior to his discharge, he would be
eligible for allowances. The full 80 days
does not nave to fall between September
16, 1910, and the close of the war, but
the number of payments he will receive
will depend upon the length of time he
was in service between those dates. For
example: An individual entering military
service on July l, 1910, and discharged
November Is, 1910, would have been in
service only two months after Septem-
Der IS, 1910. Such individual would be
entitled to 16 payments, as the eligible
veteran is entitled to eight payments
for each of the first three months and
four payments for each additional
month, for a maximum of SO payments.
Veterans who are discharged due to
injuries received in line of active duty
are not required to fulfill the 80 days
of the active service provision.
AS of October 81, 2S3 veterans had
filed with the Commission through the
United States Employment Service Of
fees located throughout the State, and
the Commission had made 1853 weekly
payments amounting to 1896 to ITO
veterans, according to Mr.. Cameron. The
funds for the payment of veterans al
lowances are made available to the
Commission by the Veterans Bureau
which by agreement has delegated its
authority to administer Title V of the
CT Bill of Rights to the Mississippi I'm
employment Compensation Commission
said Mr.. Cameron.
The maximum allowance for any week
of total unemployment is $40, but the
total amount a veteran may receive is
determined in number of payments rath-
err than dollars. For this reason many
veterans may not be filing for allow
ances at the present time, but instead,
may be saving these allowances as a
buffer against possible greater unem-
ployment in the postwar period. Veter-
ans, regardless of date of discharge
may draw as late as two years after the
close of the war. Many veterans undoubt
IDLY feel that within two years after the
war there will be a time when they will
leed the money far more thar they do
at the present time, and being partially
unemployed now they do not van to
exhaust their allowances at, for exam
pie, $40 a week, when they may receive
500 a week when totally unemployed.
However, veterans who wish to claim
allowances may do so through any of
the 81 United States Employment Ser
vice Offices in the State. If the veteran
wishing to file a claim cannot conven-
iently call at any of these offices, he
may file his claim at any of the SO
itinerant points at which a representa-
i've of the United States Employment
Service calls each week for the conven-
ence of unemployed veterans, as well
as civilian workers, Mr.. Cameron said.
Self-employed veterans must make
lpplication for allowance within 20 days
after the close of the month for which
lllowance is claimed, and may, as in
ne case of unemployed veterans, re
,ardless Of the date of discharge, draw
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