Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 14, Number 43, DeMotte, Jasper County, 8 September 1944 — READJUSTMENT PROGRAM ALLOWANCE [ARTICLE]

READJUSTMENT PROGRAM ALLOWANCE

One of the major programs to help unemployed veterans of World War II re-establish themselves in civilian life goes into effect in Indiana in the week beginning September 10. It's the readjustment allowance program under the G. I. Bill of Rights. Any unemployed veteran may file his claim by taking his discharge or separation papers to any one of the 24 local offices of the Indiana Employment Security Division. The Veterans Administration has assigned the Employment Security Division the job of claims taking and payment of readjustment allowances because for seven years the Division has operated the civilian unemployment compensation program, which protects approximately 1,200,000 wage earners in Indiana, and therefore has the machinery already set up to handle the claims. Everett L. Gardner, director of the Employment Security Division said that a mere trickle of claims were anticipated in the early weeks of the readjustment allowance program. Approximately half of the veterans who have returned to the state so far * have benefit rights under the state unemployment compensation program, but last month only 10 veterans did claim jobless pay.