Jobless Pay for Md. School Aides Questioned
Concerned about the growing number of school employees applying for benefits during the paylcss summer months, Maryland unemployment officials have started speculating that some of the people taking advantage of the program are not the ones for whom it originally was designed.</br></br>The trouble is, state officials believef some employees who neither need nor want summer employment have followed the bus drivers and cafeteria workers that do need employment to the unemployment registration centers!	'	: "WhatÛªs happened here happens fn many social programs,Û explained Frank/ P. Wrobel of MarylandÛªs Emloyment Security Administration.</br></br>ÛÏIt was the obvious intent of Congress to get some money into the economy and to help some people who needed it. But dammit, when they write the legislation they leave it wide open. When they leave it wide open, wc run into difficulty.Û</br></br>school employees with no intention of looking for.other summer employment line up for benefits anyway.	( ÛÏThis is a'difficult thing to conirol under federal and state law,Û said Wrobel earlier this week. "ItÛªs definitely hard to police.</br></br>Excluded from the eligible pool of applicants are these citizens of .school employees with contracts who know they are , returning to-work in SeptemberÛÓteachers, administrators, or researchers./Those are the only exclusions.	-	V According to Wrobel, the federal law that mandates that tile states piakc the summer payments was designed ÛÏfor cafeteria workers, for many of those mar-,-ginal employees who canÛªt get jobs anywhcrc-Ûª-else.Û