The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-25

Suppose you were to lose 8 war job in Indiana. During your base year you have earned $2456, or which $574 was in the first quarter, $649 in the second, $593 in the third and $640 in the final quarter. The total for the year exceeded $250 and wages for the last half exceeded $50. You are eligible for benefits. But how much?
 The highest earning in any quar- ter was $649, and 1/25 of that is $25.96. This exceeds the legal max imum, and therefore your benefit rate reverts to the maximum, $20. You can draw benefits up to 20 weeks, unless you find job sooner. If you had earned less, you might receive less each week and for a shorter period.
 STATES IN PACT
 But suppose there is no other work for you in Indiana, or suppose you had reason to believe that your chances were better in, say, Ohio. How can you report weekly in South Bend while hunting for & job in Akron?
 All the states, Alaska, Hawaii and the Dominion of Canada, have en- tered into an arrangement to pro- tect you in this respect. Only the District of Columbia does not par ticipate. Any state, through the nearest Unemployment Compensa- tion office, will accept your applica- tion for benefits, decide whether you are eligible, and transmit the record to the state where your rights were earned. You can report at the office acting as your agent. The United States Employment Service there will try to help you to find 8 new job. If 1t succeeds, the state pay- ing your benefits will be notified.
 Thus the necessity or desirability of leaving the state where your rights were earned will not prevent you from drawing whatever benefits you have coming.
 A new compact has been accepted by many of the states, which will enable a worker to pool whatever credits he may have in two or more states and thereby establish unem- ployment compensation rights that he could not obtain from any one of the states in which he worked. Twelve states have adopted this plan formally. These are Alabama, Arkansas, California, Georgia, Maine, Maryland, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Virginia and Wisconsin.
 Fourteen other states are reported by the Interstate Conference of En1- ploynent Security Agencies as hav- ing indicated their intention to ac- cede to the pact. They are Coloardo, Delaware, Florida, Iowa, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Da- kota, Texas, Vermont, Washington, west Virginia and Wyoming. CREDITS ARE FOOLED
 The arrangement here is that a worker with wage credits in two or more states, but not sufficient in any to entitle him to benefits, can have his credits from various states pooled. In that event he will receive the weekly amount, for the maxi mum duration. that is provided by the state where he applies and by which he actually is paid. These interstate arrangements are designed to make it easier for worker to obtain his benefit rights and, in that way to eliminate tr- ritation that might create a de- mand for standardization of the Un- employment Compensation system.
 They have the advantage, at 9 time like that now in prospect, of enabling an unemployed worker to move about in search for job-or to return to the home he left when he went into war work-without sacrificing such Unemployment Compensation benefits as he may have earned.
 Since the U. s. Employment Serv- ice operates on a national basis, its ofiice at which the worker applies can seek work for him just as well as the office in the town he left could have done.
 Outside of New York city,. most Unemployment Compensation agen- cies are located at USES offices, so that both unemployment and bene- it angles can be arranged simul- taneously.
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