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...Democrats on the board question whether slow is beautiful. They are worried by what they see as a waste of the nation's resources-the jobless people and the factories working at an average of about 73% of capacity. To correct the situation, they expect Jimmy Carter to follow the conventional Democratic policies spelled out in his position papers and in last week's televised debate: more stimulation of the economy, easier money, tax cuts through tax reform (TIME, June...
...impossible to pinpoint the number of cheaters who have slipped through in Michigan and other states. A Georgia official estimates that at the peak last year 15% to 20% of jobless-benefit payouts in the state were going to people who had no crying need of assistance. But that would include housewives who worked for a while, then quit and legally collected full unemployment benefits. Most estimates of outright fraud now range nationally from 2% to 5%. The Federal Government's latest figures show that less than 1% of claims are made illegitimately-but that counts only the minority...
...great majority of cheaters know exactly what they are doing. They are wily and skilled in the law and its many loopholes. They know how to take advantage of unemployment officials who are inclined to give jobless people the benefit of a doubt. Their justification to themselves is that the economic system that resulted in their unemployment somehow owes them a living. Says Edward Kelly, a Massachusetts unemployment official: "It [unemployment compensation] is a fringe benefit they feel they should take advantage...
...Manhattan secretary who was having personal problems, quit her job last year. Her employer, in sympathy with her plight, listed her as fired, thus enabling Caroline to collect $90 a week in unemployment benefits for 65 weeks (in New York, most employees who quit voluntarily are ineligible for jobless benefits). Unemployment officials insisted that she visit prospective employers regularly. But her former boss had deliberately made Caroline difficult to place by saying that her relatively high salary was for work performed as a file clerk instead of a secretary. That suited Caroline fine. Says she: "I needed a vacation. Besides...
Some employers hire part-time workers and pay them "off the books," usually in greenbacks taken from the petty-cash drawer. The employer gets the advantage of cheap labor; the workers draw both clandestine wages and jobless benefits. Harold Kasper, who directs New York State's unemployment insurance program, ran into one such case by sheer accident: while munching a corned beef on rye at an Albany delicatessen, he overheard a waitress complaining to a friend that another waitress was being paid off the books. Such freakish breaks aside, says Kasper, the fraud is extremely hard to combat...