$400,000.00
Federal Taxes
For Alaska
I7 n employment C o mpensation
Benefits made possible by 1937
Session of Alaska Legislature.
The 1937 Legislature of the
Territory of Alaska, in Extraor
dinary Session, by passing a
Territorial Unemployment Com
pensation Law, made it possible
for the Territory to retain ap
proximately $400,000.00 per year
of Federal taxes, which other
wise would have gone to the
Federal Government, to be used
solely for payment of Unemploy
ment Compensation Benefits.
Unemployment Compensation
Benefits are not in any sense of
the word a dole; they are in fact
insurance premiums rightfully
due to the worker who has ful
filled the requirements of the
law and are payable to him dur
ing periods of involuntary unem
ployment.
Prior to the passage of State
Unemployment Compensation
Laws, a worker who lost his job
through no fault of his own, was
forced to shift for himself and en
deavor to find another position.
The United States as an indus
trial nation is at last reaching ma
turity; the day when a worker
who became unemployed could
after a few days’ search step into
another position is past. In many
cases when a skilled worker who
has established his home in a
community becomes unemployed,
the lack of immediate income
forces him to accept a job out of
his line'of trade and possibly to
remain on this job for years. Un
employment Compensation Bene
fits will enable this individual
to maintain his standard of liv
ing for the period of time which
is ordinarily required for re-em
ployment.
B-icause of the fact that con
tributions to the Alaska Unem
ployment Compensation Fund
are made solely by employers,
the employers at this time poss
ess a better understanding of the
law than the employees. How
ever, employees should make it a
point to understand fully the
part they play in this plan.
Tha “base period" for the first
quarter of 1939 will consist of
the first nine months of 1938. As
this base period includes the 3rd
quarter of 1938, or the quarter
ending September 30, it will be
necessary to have worker’s wage
reports immediately so that the
processing of individual employ
ee’s wage credits can be complet
ed before the payment of bene
fits begins next January.
Approximately 25,000 e m -
ployee wage credits will have to
be posted for the tthird quarter
of 1938, together with such ad
ditional postings as will be re
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quired by receipt of reports de
linquent in proceeding quarters, j
These postings must be complet- i
c d before the end of December in
order to pay benefits promptly
next year. The Alaska Unemploy
ment Compensation law includes
severe penalty provisions in cas
es where employers fail to mak;'
worker’s wage reports.
With the objective that bene
fit payments may be promptly
and accurately made in Alaska,
the Unemploym nt Compensation
Commission requests coopera
tion of subject employers by the
immediate filing of delinquent
wage record reports, if any, and
the filling af reports for the last
quarter ending September 30.
The reports for the third quartet
wee due October 31 and are now
delinquent.
Under the Alaska Unemploy
ment Compensation Law, Bene
fits will be due and payable after
the second week in January,
1939, a two week waiting period ;
being required subsequent to t'ho
filing of the in'tial claim.
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